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Is it on a tty in embedded mode? If so does switching ttys using CTRL+ALT+F{1..10} work? Usually the display manager is on F1 or F7. If it's not in embedded mode, does Left Alt + Enter work?
EDIT: Re-read and realized I didn't understand completely. You're starting it with your display manager. I'm not sure how you would kill it in that case.
I'm using this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gamescope-session-steam-git Looking at the source here: https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session-steam/blob/main/usr/bin/steamos-session-select
You can see it looks for a script to shutdown steam or defaults to normal shutdown.
I pointed os-session-select to a script that restarts my sddm service, before shutting down steam, so it returns me into the default session. It was a bit finicky though and I hacked a systemd service into it to ensure the script didn't get killed.
Hope this helps. Might clean it up some time and put it in a repository/on the aur.
EDIT: I was inspired by ChimeraOS; it uses that os-session-select for its main project as well to return to the gnome desktop.
That helps a lot, thank you! I will look at it. Would really appreciate if you shared your work. Do you have the problem where you don't see the menu or is this only me?
I haven't had the issue with the menu, never had as far as I remember. It might be because of the way you set up the session. If you try installing the aur package I linked and start that session, the menu hopefully just works as it did for me.
That session does not work for me at all, or to be precise, it works only when I disconnect my second display. I might have to search for an option to disable that before launching the session.
Oh interesting & unfortunate. I can confirm I use one display, running it on my TV. I must say, big picture on my desktop session gets closer to the experience than when I initially set this up. I hope they add the quick settings overlay to the normal big picture mode some time. I might switch back to running on my desktop session.
I got it to work following the customization instructions on their GitHub. The only problem that remains now is the still invisible menu.
Now, launching games does not work... This sure lacks some polish😅
I definitely did not run into this many issues when I installed it... Just kinda worked for me, so I'm not sure where you should investigate
Also, switching to desktop works now, but the menu is still invisible.