Black screen when switching to desktop mode (bazzite-deck-gnome:stable)
Hi,
I am running bazzite-deck-gnome:stable on my Steam Deck. Most of the time I have it docked to an external monitor in desktop mode.
Now I cannot get into desktop mode anymore. If I press "Switch to Desktop" I only get a black screen with no mouse pointer. I also cannot press ctrl+alt+F2 to get to a terminal at that point. It doesn't matter if I have the dock connected or not.
I can get to a terminal in gaming mode by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 ...
Solution:
Update: I was able to get to the Gnome shell by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 in gaming mode and entering
gnome-shell --wayland
I then rebased back to :stable from :stable-42 since that wasn't the problem and rebooted.
Then I opened the gnome shell again with gnome-shell --wayland and noticed some extension updates in Extension Manager so I thought maybe it was a problem with extensions and disabled them all and rebooted.
...Need Help setting up my Quest 2.
Steam VR is unstable and losing connection.
Alvr isn't working either....
How to get more swap?
A Game needs 8GB but i only have 4.
Solution:
You could assign more zram via the "/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf" file. or you can try assigning a swap file via the docs https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/swapfile/
Lost QAM after Steam update
Fresh installed latest stable Bazzite on Aokzoe a1. On first start everything was good and top bar was as expected with QAM opened on right side. Steam deck ui with correct scaling.
But after applying update from Steam i got ui without QAM and whole Steam Game Mode ui is scaled similar to Big Picture. Pressing on battery icon opens not QAM but battery settings full screen. Is Any way to fix QAM?
Tried ujust fix-reset-steam, no luck....
Tried everything, Grub doesn’t change
I’m dual booting Windows 11 with secure boot enabled
Editing etc/default/grub or /boot/grub2/user.cfg doesn’t work
following what this link says, doesn’t work either:...
Bad fps rate on lower hardware requirement games.
I have an HP Victus laptop with AMD cpu and RTX 3050 TI gpu. I bought Party Animals yesterday to play with my friends, but after loading assets it has 15 fps and whatever I do it stays that way. I usually play The Finals just fine, I tried Albion Online before and it had a bad fps too until I switched to vulkan renderer. On my windows I get 120 fps in Party Animals. I tried a lot of things but none seems to work. The only thing I can find is that my system usually uses my igpu's vram twice it's...
installing eclipse and zed
hello, i am new to bazzite and try to install applications for development. i already installed java, git and maven in a distrobox fedora. but i have no idea how that works with eclipse or the zed editor. any help would be really appreciated.
duel boot help for idiot
when i recently switched over too bazzite i bought a fresh 2 Tb ssd m2 drive to install too leaving my original windows install on my original 1 tb ssd after installing bazzite i can no longer detect the original 1Tb drive i did create a system image of my windows install so im not panicking but im not sure where to start with this isuse
Gaming Mode incorrect rotation and resolution
I've had this minipc floating around for awhile and wanted to make it a steamos portable instead. Unfortunately this screen is portrait by default. I got the screen to work right in desktop mode, but if I try using gaming mode it doesn't work. I can always just use big picture mode in desktop if it won't be possible to fix, but would like to have it boot into it correctly.

Multiple Python Environments
Hi guys, I'm new to Linux so bear with me.
I have some projects to do so iinstalled VSCode, and new to this as well, I must have install several versions of Python or something because now there are several Python environments, most of them redundant. The only ones I use are the 'opencv-env' and the 'Global env' if needed.
I want to delete the rest, but having difficulty doing so. Going to the files themselves seem to be read-only files and so deleting them is not psosible. I tried changing them to read and write only using:
...

Setting up CV1 oculus
Could someone guide me with a confirmed way to make this oldy headset and touch controllers work? I haven't tried it on this system yet and I didn't manage to get it working on my last attempt with different distro.
Error launching steam fresh install
Idk why I'm blind and didn't originally ask my question here its my b. This is my error.
I've restarted the system and I've reinstalled.
And tried fix reset-steam...

Controller issues with ROG ALLY
Hello! I have an issue with the Rog ally controller, I’ve tried every single controller configuration in the handheld deamon and none of them work.
The issue is that since the bumpers on my Rog no longer work, I have been using the back pedals as the bumpers.. however when I try and remap them it thinks my back paddles are Y and B...
Solution:
Fixed!
Steam unable to launch any games
tl;dr, steam won't launch anything. Play button spins a bit, no window appears, goes back to being a play button nearly instantly. I'm not familiar enough to know where to start troubleshooting, so please bear with me.
Ran Steam via the terminal, I tend to see this spew every time, but nothing is standing out to me as particularly damning.
```
chdir "/var/mnt/games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Hardspace Shipbreaker"
Game Recording - would start recording game 1161580, but recording for this game is disabled...
Solution:
Wild shit. Got it working. Unfortunately, nuking my external steam library did not work. Looking in my ~/.steam folder, I found a weird little folder with unprintable unicode characters (
\034\310\f). Nuked that + all caches + configs, ran ujust fix-reset-steam, reinstalled a small game locally... Boom. Worked.protontricks inconsistent behavior
When running
protontricks -l, I see the list of games correctly. When I run protontricks <appid> regedit, it says "Could not find configured Proton installation!". I'm lost on how to debug at this point.Endgame brand mouse middle click not registering through layer proton correctly
I have an endgame brand gaming mouse, I configured it on windows because it doesn't have a linux alternative and I haven't been able to find a linux alternative that can read the mouse. And while the middle mouse button seems to work on the desktop just fine, I am able to open new tabs with it, scroll pages with the click etc. Any game that goes through the proton layer seems to be unable to register it. If I plug an older logitech mouse in that I have the middle mouse click works just fine through proton so the issue is seemingly with the endgame mouse middle mouse not being recognized correctly somehow either from the OS or from proton.
Anyone know of a potential work around? I really don't want to have to use a razer or logitech mouse just because they have support if I can help it. But so far i've been unable to find a way to get it to work....
7.1 Subwoofer isnt working
Hi all!
So in my HTPC running a 1080ti & Denon 1800H the Subwoofer isnt working when Testing the Channels, but in games its constantly giving rumbling sounds even If theres no bass...
Authorization/authentication error when trying to bootc switch to my custom Bazzite image
I'm following the instructions for creating a customized Bazzite image and hitting an error when trying to switch over to my new image:
```bash
$ sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/tmoertel/bazzite-tgm
error: Switching: Preparing import: Fetching manifest: failed to invoke method OpenImage: unable to retrieve auth token: invalid username/password: unauthorized...
Home Theater (Or Similar) on GTX 1070.
Hey I have a GTX 1070 and I am a PC Couch Gamer ahah.
Bazzite Home Theater seems fantastic for me, but I saw that it wasn't supported for NVIDIA GPUs under 16xx Series.
Is there a Stable Alternative ?...
