Steam takes forever to launch Arch Linux Nvidia

skymtf OP , 1 year ago

for anyone wondering a I fixed by deleting this directory ~/nvidia/GLCache/

deong , 1 year ago

I was having similar problems on a fresh arch install with multiple apps taking upwards of 15 seconds to launch, and the “fix” ended up being to uninstall one or more of the “portal” packages (there are several with names like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk). gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/…/74 and bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285334 for more info.

Could be completely unrelated, but it might be worth a try.

setInner234 , 1 year ago

You are right, this fixes slow startup times for Steam, Firefox, Thunderbird and various others.

skymtf OP , 1 year ago

Mine is legit only steam and takes upwards of 3-5 minutes

jaykstah , 1 year ago

What desktop environment or wm are you using? Are you using a login manager or launching your session from tty?

I’ve had similar issues in the past but in my case I had to configure things so that when I log in it sets environment variables correctly and have my sway config start up xdg-desktop-portal correctly.

I’ve also had situations where specifically xdg-desktop-portal-gtk was causing problems so id uninstall that while keeping the other xdg-desktop-portal-* packages, so it could be one of those causing it

skymtf OP , 1 year ago

I’m using KDE so my WM is kwin, and my login manager is SDDM