I am confused about why this was sent to the maintainer and CC'd to
debian-devel, as opposed to simply opening a bug about it.
On 1/23/26 2:28 PM, Ger Zeeman wrote:
Hi Simon,
I noticedin the changelogfor steam-installer1:1.0.0.78~ds-3 that you removed
/usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png with the message"Remove dangling
symlink".
I'm writing to report that this file is actually required by Steam for
its system tray icon. On Linux Mint 22.3 (XFCE and Cinnamon), Steam
shows a generic/black tray icon when this file is missing. The file
can be restored with: sudo cp
/usr/share/icons/Mint-Y/apps/24/steam.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png After restoring it, Steam's tray icon works correctly.
Could you please consider either:
1. Restoring thefile in the next package update
2. Or creating a proper symlink instead of removing it?
This would fix the tray iconfor many Linux Steam users.
# File is missing:
$ls -la /usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png
ls: cannot access'/usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png': No suchfile or
directory
# Steam is searching for that file:
$strace -e openat steam-silent 2>&1 | grep -i steam_tray
openat(AT_FDCWD,"/usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT(No suchfile or directory)
# Temporary workaround
$sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Mint-Y/apps/24/steam.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png
$ steam-silent &
And that fixes the tray-icon problem.
Thank youfor your work on steam-installer!
Best regards,
Ger Zeeman
[email protected]
