Gnome "System Monitor" does not filter Steam processes

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hello!

I am using Fedora Silverblue 44
I created another account on my computer without administrator privileges specially to use it with a flatpak version of a Steam app (hoping that it will make it more secure). What seems to me strange that when I am running Steam and I open System manager, click on search and type in a word steam it does not filter processes that have steam name on them. Nothing changes - it is showing all the processes currently running on the system.
I wonder why?

P.S. when I type in other words it seems that it does filter.

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I figured out why that is.
That is because I named the user account without administrative privileges for gaming “steamer”.
That is so weird.
Be careful how you choose your user account names : D
P.S. If someone knows more about this please add more comments.

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I don’t use GNOME, but my guess would be that when you type “steam” into the GNOME system monitor searchbox, it looks for the string “steam” in multiple fields, including the process owner.

So if your username is ‘steamer’, then “steam” matches every process you own.

I can’t replicate this in the KDE system monitor, which appears to search only on process name.

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Yes, that is exactly how it works. Is it diffrent on KDE?
If you would enter your user name it would filter nothing or it would show 0 results?

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On KDE it just shows an empty table:

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Thank you. : )
So that is just on Gnome.
I wonder maybe it is a bug?

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I guess it’s a matter of opinion. You want to filter on process name only, but maybe other users want to filter on all fields.

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Ok.
Yes, I would prefer it to be like in KDE.
Thank you : )

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Oh, I just thought maybe someone would know if there is a terminal command that would make it to behave like in KDE?