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In order to fix the issue, I "purged" Steam from my computer, restarted and re-installed Steam from scratch... Everything worked fine until I restarted, then boom - the icon is missing again!
Any ideas?
apt list --installedBut if I type:
steam-launcherTerminal says:
steam-launcher: command not foundWhich package did you use to install Steam? Was it "steam-installer" from the Ubuntu repositories or the package you can download [here](https://store.steampowered.com/about/)?EDIT: Try running "steam" instead of "steam-launcher". The name of the package isn't the same as the name of the executable.
Had some issues with it on Arch as well.
Can ou try to install MATE alongside it ? Just to see if the bug repeats ?
If I manually created an item for Steam in the Menu (right-click the Menu-->Configure...-->Menu-->Open the menu editor-->category (e.g. "Games")-->New Item), it seems to "stick" between restarts (of my computer)...
The "Name" field is whatever you want it to be, the "Command" field is "steam" and if you click the icon, you can pick whatever icon you want (the actual "Steam" icon should be in there, if you want to stick with that).