Steam Linux Client Beta Adds Idle Detection, Updated Vulkan Loader & More

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Phoronix: Steam Linux Client Beta Adds Idle Detection, Updated Vulkan Loader & More

Valve pushed out an updated Steam Linux client beta today that includes some useful changes for Linux gamers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Client-Beta-20170105

[Xen0sys]

Awesome albeit overdue.

Hopefully it shuts off BP's GPU usage when the system idles/screen turns off. Can anyone confirm that?

SteamOS's prior (hopefully fixed now) burned energy just sitting on idle.

[davidbepo]

Finally!

[theghost]

About time, Volvo.

[bachchain]

and for the first time in 12 years, it's easy to use steam on linux

[suberimakuri]

That's all great.

Currently I have debian with openbox running on an htpc.
Openbox logs in under user and autoloads Kodi and Steam.
I have used Kodi shutdown timer with action of suspend after 120 minutes.
However this can suspend during Steam games (streamed) if I'm not careful.
I think I should probably install xscreensaver or lightlocker? or similar like my laptop and stop using Kodi's shutdown timer function.
I wonder if Kodi playing music/movie or Steam gaming will inhibit systemd idle. Anyone know?
I should just test it out.

[Azpegath]

I've been running without the STEAM_RUNTIME set for years now, and I've rarely had issues

[droste]

I still need to load the system libstdc++.so with ld_preload when using the steam runtime. Is this working for someone with mesa drivers?

[M@yeulC]

I still need to load the system libstdc++.so with ld_preload when using the steam runtime. Is this working for someone with mesa drivers?

Are you using the *beta* client? Just to make sure. It's working for me.

Does anyone have some details regarding the way they allowed the system libraries to be prioritized?

[PluMGMK]

Works out of the box with Mesa compiled with GCC6 here.