How to make Steam remember auth information?

Bazzite
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Every time I reboot, Steam asks me for username and password, even though I keep the “Remember me” option selected. How do I make Steam actually remember me?

Also, settings such as resolution, bluetooth on/off state and HDR are also reset to defaults on reboot

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Are you in KDE or Gnome?

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I’m using GNOME and have Bazzite set up.to boot directly into Big Picture

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Got it. Can you try going into gnome desktop and using the command ujust fix-reset-steam , restart and see if that fixes your problem. Looks like a steam settings permission error.

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I ran the script and rebooted a few times and settings were remembered - looks like it’s fixed for now.

The issue kept happening occasionally, not on each reboot, so I’ll flag it here if the issue comes back.

But so far, so good - thanks!

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Perfect! You might have had a bad update on Steam or something. It’s fine, hence the ujust script that just resets everything and sets up Steam from scratch for you! Be sure to mark the thread as solved after a while so others can try the same steps if they stumble upon it.

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Unfortunately, today after a forced reboot I see the steam login page again :frowning:

Edit: but after another reboot it properly remembers the auth data

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Ok thats weird as hell. Can you post your specs pls?

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Sure thing, there you go:


bazzite-deck-gnome:stable 
Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Silverblue)
Linux 6.14.6-106.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
11 hours, 36 mins

B450M-HDV R4.0
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16) @ 4.67 GHz
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete]
5.83 GiB / 31.26 GiB (19%)
30.24 MiB / 30.24 MiB (100%) - overlay [Read-only]
27.18 MiB / 31.74 MiB (86%) - vfat
224.63 GiB / 232.85 GiB (96%) - exfat
912.57 GiB / 929.93 GiB (98%) - btrfs [Read-only]
Mouse passthrough (absolute)

bash 5.2.37
/dev/pts/0
2409 (rpm), 53 (flatpak-system), 19 (flatpak-user)
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I’ve ran

touch ~/.config/bazzite/disable_steamdeck_flag

following the topic from Steam Logged out on reboot - Universal Blue and Steam is being started with the -steamdeck flag, requires log in everytime steam is started · Issue #55 · ublue-os/bazzite-dx · GitHub and hoping that would solve the problem. So far it works. Will report if anything changed

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Still no issues - seems like the above solution solved it!

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