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I start a Steam game by its shortcut. Then when I end the game, I would like to stop Steam after that game too.

Under Windows 7 I used once, I had to do an Alt-Tab to find Steam and stop it by its Quit menu entry. But under Debian, Alt-Tab or Windows key doesn't show me the Steam application running in background : but it is here, because if I start the system monitor I see it among the processes.

My workaround is to use the Windows key, type Steam and launch its GUI : its current active instance comes. Then I stop it by Quit and Steam is removed.

But is there a way to retrieve the Steam instance more quickly to stop it?

gronostaj
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In my desktop environment (GNOME), there is a Steam icon in the top right hand corner of the menu bar while Steam is running. Clicking on it brings Steam to the foreground.

If your desktop environment has no such visual indicator then you may need to kill it from a terminal. The process name appears to be "steam", so a pkill steam should do it, or at least grab its attention.

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