Steam wont open

steam on my system wont open, when I type steam in terminal, here is the output, it launches, and the steam icon is on system tray, but there is no interface… I can click the icon on system tray which will bring up a list says ‘…store, library, …, setting, exit steam’ but nothing happened when I click them… except steam will quit if I click the ‘exit steam’ button.

-> bsh > steam
steam.sh[2716]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[2716]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[2790]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2716]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] Startup - updater built Jun 21 2023 21:17:38
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
06/24 12:45:49 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1687386907)/tid(2871)
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] 3. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] Verifying installation...
[2023-06-24 12:45:49] Verification complete

(process:2871): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:45:49.411: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:2871): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:45:49.411: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Loaded SDL version 3.0.0-1782-g214d5daa3
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xeffbcdb0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xeffbb500
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
ComputeStartupMode: found registry default startup mode: 0
Switching to desktopui, since -vgui was not specified
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[2878]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[2878]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 14 milliseconds to initialize
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed

(steam:2871): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:45:50.042: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
/usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-2.0/widgets/entry:70: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'

(steam:2871): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:45:50.045: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-2.0/widgets/styles:36: error: invalid string constant "combobox_entry", expected valid string constant
local (potentially out of sync) copy of roaming config loaded - 1232 bytes.
BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 0ms
roaming config store loaded successfully - 1232 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store

(steam:2871): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:45:51.646: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(steam:2871): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:45:51.646: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
System startup time: 2.38 seconds
steamwebhelper.sh[3096]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[3096]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 194 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 4ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 4ms
steamwebhelper.sh[3239]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[3239]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
steamwebhelper.sh[3387]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[3387]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 194 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 4ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 4ms
steamwebhelper.sh[3530]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[3530]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 194 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 3ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 3ms
steamwebhelper.sh[3677]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/yuanhao/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[3677]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 194 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 3ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 3ms

system info:
Up to date EndeavourOS, intel+nvidia+kde+wayland
full info here: http://ix.io/4yYq

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Is it reproducible when not using Wayland?

There are still a few things that don’t work great with Wayland, unfortunately.

Looks similar to this issue, have a look:

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