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RE: Official version just switched to Webkit-based
by pablo pg on Monday April 26th 2010, 17:06
happedned the same, todays update changed the whole steam
i changed the winecfg to windows vista and it works
seems the beta steam is now official. and they dont care about older windows anymore, just vista and 7
RE: Official version just switched to Webkit-based
by byteframe on Monday April 26th 2010, 19:34
I can get it to start up on one of my computers, and can still play games (phew!), but all the quirky UI problems of the previous steam on wine (flickering, hard to move the windows, etc, etc) seem much worse on this silly new version of steem.
Also, trying to browse the portions of the UI that use webkit/html (Library, News, Community), results in steam crashing (it just disappears, I've yet to check terminal output). I haven't had X crash.
On another machine, after steam updated, the ui failed to show, and my desktop launchers for the games weren't working either. Unless the steam windows were on the other monitor that was turned off (dual head), it would seem something is wrong. bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21847 (while marked fixed) might be informative.
Both machines running almost identical installations of Slackware 13.0, wine-1.1.43, Nvidia 195.36.15, using a 8800 GTS 320, and a 6800 GT AGP, respectively.
RE: Official version just switched to Webkit-based
by mhdevel on Wednesday April 28th 2010, 11:36
i updated steam yesterday and it worked with wine .42, now i have the same issues as i updated to wine .43. - downgrading to .42 helps, steam will start!
RE: Official version just switched to Webkit-based
by byteframe on Wednesday April 28th 2010, 18:31
I've found that a new steam install will default to showing you the latest news and product updates. This uses webkit and will might/will atm crash steam right away.
Edit 'Program Files/Steam/userdata/"one of the folders, mine was "20804321"/config/localconfig.vdf'. You'll see a "news" section, under it, a "Messages" section. Add "NotifyAvailableGames" "0" after the "Messages" section, like so:
and you can avoid this issue. Then, you'll have to quickly navigate to the Library section, to avoid the webbased Store section from crashing. Use settings, to set your default section to Library.
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On one of my machines, I can't use Windows XP mode in winecfg for Steam. Using Vista/2008/7, makes it so I can SEE the Steam UI, but trying to modify the settings, and install a game makes it crash.
Let's hope phoronix is correct about a future Steam Linux Client.
RE: Official version just switched to Webkit-based
by german on Monday May 3rd 2010, 9:40
Updating to 195.xx nvidia drivers (as part of karmic -> lucid upgrade) seems to have fixed the problem. I still have an invisible sys tray icon, but I can play HL2 again!
