sway: Hitman game launcher is not clickable

Sway Version:

sway version 1.2 (Sep 26 2019, Arch Linux)

Debug Log:

No useful log in journalctl:

Sep 30 22:35:40 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: >>> Adding process 31201 for game ID 863550
Sep 30 22:35:40 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: >>> Adding process 31213 for game ID 863550
Sep 30 22:35:40 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.avail/05-reset-dirs-sample.conf", line 6: unknown element "reset-dirs"
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/jattali/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Game update: AppID 863550 "", ProcID 31184, IP 0.0.0.0:0
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 863550
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198001543971 [API loaded no]
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/jattali/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/jattali/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Game update: AppID 863550 "", ProcID 31229, IP 0.0.0.0:0
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 863550
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198001543971 [API loaded no]
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: >>> Adding process 31220 for game ID 863550
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: >>> Adding process 31222 for game ID 863550
Sep 30 22:35:41 ansan /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session[1650]: >>> Adding process 31229 for game ID 863550

Configuration File:

Nothing specific (IMO).

Finally, explain the steps you took in plain English to reproduce the problem below. Simply launch Hitman through Steam. The game launcher appears but none of the 3 buttons are clickable. It’s as if the window does not exist. I tried to look for it using swaymsg -t get_tree but I cannot find it. Any interaction with the buttons simply go through and are received by whatever window is underneath.

See screenshot.

Not sure if this is as sway bug or a steam bug. Sorry for the noise if I put this in the wrong place.

Screenshot-2019-09-30-223210

Stack Trace, if sway crashes:

No crash

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 17 (2 by maintainers)

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This occurs with the LOTRO launcher and the EVE online launchers as well, when run from Steam or just using standard WINE. To play these games I run dwm since they don’t work with Sway.

The LOTRO launcher I know uses Qt4, maybe it has something to do with that?

Unsure about Hitman, but the LOTRO and EVE launchers will follow you through workspaces in addition to being unclickable/unmovable

Wychmire on Dec 4, 2019

I have the same problem. As a workaround, I adapted flibitijibibo’s Shenmue 1 & 2 workaround to work with Hitman 2:

#include <windows.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        const char *name, *dir;
        STARTUPINFO startup;
        PROCESS_INFORMATION process;

        name = "Retail/HITMAN2.exe";
        dir = "Retail";

        ZeroMemory(&startup, sizeof(startup));
        ZeroMemory(&process, sizeof(process));
        startup.cb = sizeof(startup);
        if (CreateProcess(
                name,
                NULL,
                NULL,
                NULL,
                TRUE,
                0,
                NULL,
                dir,
                &startup,
                &process
        )) {
                WaitForSingleObject(process.hProcess, INFINITE);
                CloseHandle(process.hProcess);
                CloseHandle(process.hThread);
        }
        return 0;
}

Assuming you have Wine installed:

Backup old Launcher.exe in Hitman 2 directory
winegcc launcher.c -o Launcher.exe
Copy Launcher.exe and Launcher.exe.so into Hitman 2 directory

You can also compile with mingw if you have that installed. The only difference is that there won’t be a Launcher.exe.so to copy.

This will bypass the launcher entirely, allowing the game to work until the bug is fixed.

aqxa1 on Apr 8, 2020