🐞 Bug Report: Steam causes memory leak in GNOME Shell (and possibly other DEs)

Summary

When running Steam with the default settings (overlay and/or Big Picture enabled), GNOME Shell experiences a memory leak over time—especially noticeable after about an hour of gaming.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use GNOME Shell as the desktop environment (e.g., GNOME 44/45 on Wayland/X11).
2. Launch Steam with default settings (with overlay and/or Big Picture).
3. Start a game and play for 1+ hours.
4. Observe increasing memory usage (gnome-shell process).
5. Check journalctl or GNOME logs.

Logs / Errors

From GNOME logs: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2800020 (Steam) Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

Ру: (Если кто-то использует gnome-shell)

оверлей вырубаем со стима, не понятно по какой причине с 13 года не фиксит убунту такую штуку в гноме, как минимум в гите валяется баг. Утечка памяти присутствует и это видно Касается это не только сталкрафта, но и других игр.