After installing and SteamVR on default Steam Library at $HOME Steam tries to run setcap command bellow. Running steam in commandline I get systemctl a prompt for password but it fails and Steam VR shows dialogue window with failure and to check /tmp/SteamVRLauncherSetup.log where there is just: "Error: setcap of vrcompositor-launcher failed."

Running command seperately fixes this.

sudo setcap CAP_SYS_NICE=eip ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrcompositor-launcher

More about CAP_SYS_NICE in https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html. I am not sure about the "=eip" though.

Pulec (talk) 14:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

the Virtual reality#SteamVR notes section states "SteamVR on Linux is known to have many unfixable issues as of January 2025, and is widely considered abandonware by many in the Linux VR sphere."

now what is meant by "unfixable issues" and "abandonware" exactly? SteamVR being abandonware on linux is just flat out wrong, as steam has been working on it as they now have new steam hardware running linux and SteamVR. and i genuinely don't understand the use of "unfixable issues" in this context. (this is not sarcasm or whatever, i literally don't understand) TipsyTheCat (talk) 02:55, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

SteamVR on linux has gotten lots of updates and has been massively improved over the last year. It used to be a buggy mess just a year ago, but nowadays it is basically flawless. I just deleted that section since it was outdated, inaccurate and redundant. Perlip (talk) 23:02, 6 February 2026 (UTC)