Hello everyone, I just installed Endeavouros a few days ago and it has been amazing except for one thing. The steam overlay hasn’t been working at all. When I press shift+tab the steam overlay doesn’t appear nor can I take screenshots when hitting f12 like normal. I’ve tried to get it working but …

Welcome to the community! :vulcan_salute: :enos_flag: It works for me in KDE Wayland and X11, Hyprland, and Openbox. It must mean something isn’t quite right about your setup. Maybe you just need to update your system? The whole system, not just Steam. For reference, my relevant settings: [image…

Baldur’s Gate 3 for example uses such proton as default which doesn’t somehow enable overlay. Fix for this is selecting proton experimental (or which ever works for you) and now you should have overlay including screenshots working as it should.

It can be highly game dependent if the steam overlay works or not, but in general it seems less reliable on linux than it does on windows.

Thank you for the replies! I went ahead and updated the system, double checked my steam settings, and tried proton experimental on multiple games and still had no luck. I also checked to see if mangohud’s overlay would work and oddly enough it does. I decided to try downloading the flatpak version…

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Mangohud can do the same, i noticed the overlay works BUT when you have games needing the EA launcher the overlay does not work in the game it self BUT it’s used on the EA launcher.

Steam overlay not showing

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ddnn February 1, 2026, 7:53pm 6

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