Steam's overlay freezes Linux games on alt-tab, and Valve has merged four reports

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 17 Oct, 02:04 UTC

Linux owners are reporting that games freeze for good within seconds of an alt-tab, and that switching Steam’s in-game overlay off is what stops it. Valve has merged four reports into two issues on its own trackers, issue 13709 and issue 13682, and has posted triage but no diagnosis in either. The…