Using Linus Mint, when launching Steam from my app / /start menu shortcut. Steam will begin starting, and then stop and get caught in a loop trying to start and stopping.

I'm able to launch by typing in the same command into my terminal that the shortcut uses "/usr/bin/steam %U" , I even can omit %U and it still works from my own Terminal.

But launching from the shortcut causes some loop. I can set the shortcut to use a terminal and it still loops. I get this output:

steam.sh[19185]: Running Steam on linuxmint 22 64-bit
steam.sh[19185]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[19302]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[19185]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Startup - updater built Jul 16 2024 23:21:18
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/nathan/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-x'
08/04 02:34:59 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
08/04 02:34:59 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1721173382)/tid(19362)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/nathan/.steam/debian-installation/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Checking for update on startup
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Checking for available updates...
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2024-08-04 02:34:59] Manifest download: send request
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Manifest download: finished
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1721173382, installed version 1721173382, existing pending version 0
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Nothing to do
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Verifying installation...
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2024-08-04 02:35:00] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/nathan/.steam/debian-installation/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe4205370
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe4203cc0
/usr/share/themes/Mint-L-Dark-Red/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1085: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 154 milliseconds to initialize
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 19587
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
MESA-INTEL: warning: cannot initialize blitter engine
MESA-INTEL: warning: cannot initialize blitter engine
BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 203ms
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 1360 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 31ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 32ms
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 1360 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 21ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 22ms
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 1360 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 19ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 19ms
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 1360 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 24ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 25ms


Notice the last bit repeats 4 times. That was me letting it try 3 more times after the first blip.
It's like the window was about to show up and then doesn't. In Linux Mint it looks like the section of the screen warps for a sec, because a window appear and disappeared and it uses a warp effect for those events.

I've tryed setting the chmod permissions on the usr/bin/steam script. I've also looked for a "Use Non Default GPU = true" (I forget the exact command now) so I can set it to false like one thread said. In that /usr/bin/steam script. But there was none to begin with.

I couldn't find a thread that solved this besides the one that says set permissions. And that didn't work for me.

Thank you for any help you can give. For now I can just launch from terminal I guess lol.