Steam Linux Client Beta Adds New Scaling Setting Override

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Linux Client Beta Adds New Scaling Setting Override

While yesterday brought a major update to the Steam client stable series, tonight brings a new update to the Steam beta series with some notable enhancements to the Linux client...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Force-Desktop-UI-Scaling

[NateHubbard]

Steam is actually looking pretty good now. Finally.

[maffblaster]

Michael, it looks like the environment variable name is actually STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING, not STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOP_SCALING, according to https://store.steampowered.com/news/...31965598323436.

[darkbasic]

Does it run natively on Wayland?

[verres]

Michael, it looks like the environment variable name is actually STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING, not STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOP_SCALING, according to https://store.steampowered.com/news/...31965598323436.

I can confirm STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING is working for me. STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOP_SCALING is not working.

[mcilloni]

Does it run natively on Wayland?

No, and not only that, it's still a 32 bit executable:

$ file steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                                                                                                                              
steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=603d36bac962b3904e5678c73fffe27b3916f231, not stripped​

which means that even though Wine now could, with the PE migration, potentially only depend on 64 bit libraries, the Steam client keeps depending on multilib.

[skeevy420]

Michael

I read the release notes for the June 14th stable client update and it has support for STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING, too (5th from the bottom). I also confirmed that it works on Steam Stable and that it fixed my scaling issues I was talking on the previous release thread.

[schmidtbag]

I was using GDK_SCALE instead, but not everything with that scales so hopefully this new option works better.

[skeevy420]

I was using GDK_SCALE instead, but not everything with that scales so hopefully this new option works better.

For whatever reason, that one doesn't scale Steam for me. Perhaps a KDE Wayland thing?

[schmidtbag]

For whatever reason, that one doesn't scale Steam for me. Perhaps a KDE Wayland thing?

Not sure. My gaming PC uses Budgie, so its less of a surprise why GDK scaling works there.