Steam Snap Status & Improvements

YamiYukiSenpai · April 9, 2025, 10:22am

Yes, exactly.

25.04 is already using a newer Mesa compared to what Steam snap depends on, and I tried to open an issue in gaming-graphics repo, but there was no response.

Not having Mesa 25 won’t be ideal for RX 9070 users

Forgot to mention: There’s no activity in the core24 branch in the last 6 months

marecki · July 5, 2025, 1:09pm

I have no bad intentions saying it, but it looks like this snap is abandoned, there is no activity in issue tracker (i.e. Can't Create Desktop Shortcuts · Issue #421 · canonical/steam-snap · GitHub) so reporting bugs seems to be pointless, no activity in commit history, so… not sure if I would recommend installing it

I hope the situation gets better

ogra · July 5, 2025, 2:12pm

It is not abandoned, but there is a re-org going on regarding the teams, which might take a bit, but it will definitely stay fully supported by Canonical

Kyuyrii · July 5, 2025, 2:43pm

The shortcuts are being created inside the Snap folder, specifically in $HOME/snap/steam/common/Desktop, instead of the user’s desktop.

I ended up noticing another problem, the icons that would be used in the shortcuts are inside $HOME/snap/steam/common/.local/share/icons instead of being in $HOME/.local/share/icons

Which makes the system unable to find them.

marecki · July 7, 2025, 4:48pm

good to know, thanks

YamiYukiSenpai · July 24, 2025, 10:36am

It appears that the kisak-turtle branch in gaming-graphics-core22 snap was refreshed

  kisak-turtle/candidate: 25.0.7~kisak3~j                  2025-07-09 (196) 208MB -

Though I still hope that it’ll be rebased soon

Kyuyrii · August 3, 2025, 11:36am

I’ve made some changes that may alleviate this issue.

However, we’ll need to wait for someone to approve these changes.

github.com/canonical/steam-snap

Links to GTK configuration files and fix icons and shortcuts

canonical:main ← Kyuyrii:patch-1

opened 06:25AM - 02 Aug 25 UTC

Kyuyrii

+23 -3

I made some changes to alleviate the cursor shifting issue when using Steam. Th…is part of the code was taken from the snapcraft-desktop-integration repository; I just added support for the gtk-4.0 folder for good measure. https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/issues/444 I also tweaked the creation of shortcut links to the menu, as well as the icons used by it. https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/issues/446 https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/issues/421 Since the shortcut links to the Desktop folder are proving more difficult to get working, I moved them to the $HOME folder, where they're visible enough to the user. It's a workaround, but I suppose it's useful. https://github.com/canonical/steam-snap/issues/421 In this case, the file I'm modifying, which is used in Steam Snap, copies these files when Steam is reopened, so if you try this change, keep that in mind. If you're curious about why the command ```ln -sf``` was changed to just ```ln -f``` it's so that the shortcut doesn't look like a link, as the shortcuts generated by Steam are not links, they are ```.desktop``` files.

YamiYukiSenpai · August 10, 2025, 12:51pm

> snap info gaming-graphics-core22 
name:      gaming-graphics-core22
summary:   Shared Mesa stack for gaming
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/gaming-graphics-core22
contact:   https://github.com/canonical/gaming-graphics
license:   unset
description: |
  Graphics libraries useful for gaming platforms like Steam
snap-id:      JWD4nJLiCdHrZWKOWlzGbh0cv0omRmDj
tracking:     kisak-turtle/candidate
refresh-date: 17 days ago, at 06:33 EDT
channels:
  kisak-fresh/stable:     24.2.3~kisak1~j                  2024-10-07 (184) 202MB -
  kisak-fresh/candidate:  23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3        2025-07-09 (197) 212MB -
  kisak-fresh/beta:       ↑                                                       
  kisak-fresh/edge:       ↑                                                       
  oibaf-latest/stable:    24.0~git2311260600.945288~oibaf~ 2023-12-06 (136) 210MB -
  oibaf-latest/candidate: 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3        2025-07-09 (195) 211MB -
  oibaf-latest/beta:      ↑                                                       
  oibaf-latest/edge:      ↑                                                       
  kisak-turtle/stable:    24.1.7~kisak1~j                  2024-10-07 (185) 222MB -
  kisak-turtle/candidate: 25.0.7~kisak3~j                  2025-07-09 (196) 208MB -
  kisak-turtle/beta:      ↑                                                       
  kisak-turtle/edge:      ↑                                                       
installed:                25.0.7~kisak3~j                             (196) 208MB -

I noticed that some channels’ Mesa versions downgraded. Can you make kisak-turtle the default since kisak-fresh & Oibaf’s PPA don’t have 22.04 anymore.

Funny thing: kisak-turtle still has 20.04 hahaha

YamiYukiSenpai · September 15, 2025, 1:37am

So nice to see the core24 Git branch finally getting some activity

Hopefully it comes out soon

ashtonn · October 1, 2025, 9:34pm

Core24 Steam is ready for testing, see more here: Core24 Steam | Call for Testing

YamiYukiSenpai · October 12, 2025, 10:52am

When is it gonna be the new stable version?

ogra · October 13, 2025, 8:50am

Once there has been enough test feedback? (Just a guess though )

hikingferal · December 20, 2025, 12:49pm

Whatever you did here made Ubuntu usable for me again. Before the old mesa would constantly crash my RDNA4 GPU and the Steam snap would crash the entire system. Now everything works perfectly and it’s honestly been great. I don’t know very much but it looks like the Steam snap is using the same MESA as the kisak mesa ppa. Thank you I need to learn more about core 22 and 2404 and snap bundled mesa libraries and stuff.