# \[SOLVED\] Steam on Ubuntu Phantom Launching to tray **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [March 1, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/solved-steam-on-ubuntu-phantom-launching-to-tray/46200 "2024-03-01T04:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stirling\_Greer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Stirling\_Greer](https://community.frame.work/u/Stirling_Greer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/solved-steam-on-ubuntu-phantom-launching-to-tray/46200/1 "2024-03-01T04:39:41Z")
Ubuntu 22.04 kernel - 6.5.0-1015-oem followed instructions in the guides prior to this for ubuntu and steam. Whenever I open the applications menu on Ubuntu and click steam, it launches to the system tray and my jet engine fan noise revs up, but no windows ever open. If I click the buttons like “library, friends, etc.” nothing happens, except the “exit steam” button still works and exits the application after a few seconds. The problem has something to do with the GPU selection and it causing a “phantom display”, because if I Right Click the application icon, and hit “launch with integrated gpu” it launches perfectly fine and I can interact with all windows until it’s closed again. How do I either: 1. Make the default launching option always integrated gpu? or 2. Fix the dgpu launching of steam so i can actually see the windows that my computer is running? ---
**Author:** ![Drew\_McClelland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Drew\_McClelland](https://community.frame.work/u/Drew_McClelland)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/solved-steam-on-ubuntu-phantom-launching-to-tray/46200/2 "2024-03-01T16:03:18Z")
Hey Stirling! I had the same issue on my Fedora 39 install. Could you try a few things for me? 1. If you open a new terminal (`Ctrl + Alt + T` I think? Or find it under the program search) and type `steam`, does it launch Steam correctly? Or does it still have the issue you described? 2. Can you run `vulkaninfo | grep "GPU[0123]" -A 10` in a new terminal and post the output? 3. You could try the solution [in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16ll3ll/steam_boot_loop_error/), ~~but it didn’t work for me.~~ Just kidding, I forgot to reboot. This did fix the issue for me! > Open up the steam.desktop file under /usr/share/applications and set PrefersNonDefaultGPU to false. Reboot/Relog into your machine. Problem should be solved. 1. Other people mention disabling the `switcheroo` service in a terminal, but I don’t understand the ramifications of doing that, so I didn’t try it: `systemctl disable --now switcheroo-control.service` ---
**Author:** ![Stirling\_Greer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Stirling\_Greer](https://community.frame.work/u/Stirling_Greer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/solved-steam-on-ubuntu-phantom-launching-to-tray/46200/3 "2024-03-01T16:32:40Z")
1. Launching Steam from terminal via “steam” command does launch properly, however it is tied to the console window. 2. Vulkan tools response: ```auto vulkaninfo | grep "GPU[0123]" -A 10 WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Failed to CreateInstance in ICD 3. Skipping ICD. GPU0: VkPhysicalDeviceProperties: --------------------------- apiVersion = 4206847 (1.3.255) driverVersion = 96477185 (0x5c02001) vendorID = 0x1002 deviceID = 0x15bf deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_INTEGRATED_GPU deviceName = AMD Unknown (RADV GFX1103_R1) pipelineCacheUUID = e75ab6b8-f0a3-6b04-20f4-e8b7f1c24530 -- GPU1: VkPhysicalDeviceProperties: --------------------------- apiVersion = 4206847 (1.3.255) driverVersion = 96477185 (0x5c02001) vendorID = 0x1002 deviceID = 0x7480 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU deviceName = AMD Unknown (RADV GFX1102) pipelineCacheUUID = e10a6cab-7e01-d585-a6dc-927c1b1fd8cd -- GPU2: VkPhysicalDeviceProperties: --------------------------- apiVersion = 4206847 (1.3.255) driverVersion = 1 (0x0001) vendorID = 0x10005 deviceID = 0x0000 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU deviceName = llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits) pipelineCacheUUID = 32332e32-2e31-2d31-7562-756e7475332e ``` 1. This worked for me. The .desktop file was the culprit! 2. I will probably also not do this. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME!!! I no longer feel the need to abandon my linux dreams to go back to windows. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Drew\_McClelland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Drew\_McClelland](https://community.frame.work/u/Drew_McClelland)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/solved-steam-on-ubuntu-phantom-launching-to-tray/46200/4 "2024-03-01T19:24:07Z")
> [@Stirling\_Greer](#): > > I no longer feel the need to abandon my linux dreams to go back to windows. I hit this roller coaster at least once a week 😆. I’m going to try my very hardest to never go back. In case it’s relevant to you, I had some issues getting some games to leverage the dGPU. The [thread is here](http://community.frame.work/t/responded-dri-prime-not-correctly-using-the-dgpu-in-some-games/45912/15), and the tl;dr is I had to set the startup command for the game in steam to be “`DRI_PRIME=1! %command%`” (The bang “`!`” is the important part). Not sure if this is relevant to you, but this helped keep my linux dreams alive! ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Hartley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/matt_hartley/32/13623_2.png) [@Matt\_Hartley](https://community.frame.work/u/Matt_Hartley)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/solved-steam-on-ubuntu-phantom-launching-to-tray/46200/5 "2024-05-14T19:00:41Z")
Popped by this thread as we had a user who was seeing this fail. This is [our recommended method](https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Ubuntu+24.04+LTS+Installation+on+the+Framework+Laptop+16/330#s2040). Check the guides first, please. 🙂