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Getting SteamVR to work with hyprland and NVIDIA

System Information

• Linux 6.8.6-273-tkg-bore
• wayland 1.22.0-1
• hyprland 0.38.1-1

Main issue

in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.con I have the lines

env = QT_QPA_PLATFORM,"wayland;wayland-egl;xcb"
env = SDL_VIDEODRIVER,"wayland"

this causes steamvr and steam to not be able to talk correctly.

Steps I used

# set CAP_SYS_NICE because kdesu didn't launch
sudo setcap CAP_SYS_NICE+ep ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrcompositor-launcher

edit /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop

set Exec=/usr/bin/steam-runtime %u to Exec=env SDL_VIDEODRIVER=X11 QT_QTA_PLATFORM=xcb /usr/bin/steam-runtime %u

OpenVR Advanced Settings

OpenVR Advanced Settings doesn't like SDL_VIDEODRIVER=X11 QT_QTA_PLATFORM=xcb and will segfault on launch

to fix this I built from source and reset the variables to QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland" SDL_VIDEODRIVER,"wayland"

git clone https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings
cd OpenVR-AdvancedSettin
qmake
make -j$(nproc)

you can then run it from bin/linux/AdvancedSettings/AdvancedSettings

to replace the steam version

copy the files in bin/linux/AdvancedSettings/ to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/OVR_AdvancedSettings/

cp -r bin/linux/AdvancedSettings/* ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/OVR_AdvancedSettings/

edit run.sh in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/OVR_AdvancedSettings/

replace the appimage call to AdvancedSettings

either export the enviornment variables or add it to command line arguments as QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland" SDL_VIDEODRIVER,"wayland" %command%

this is just what worked on my system and it fixed 109 and 497