Games recognize steam deck instead of PC desktop environment
I took the distro suggested to me with my specs. now every game thinks I'm on steam deck.
Its not an issue most of the time, but many games show controller buttons instead of keyboard keys for their UI, which can be a problem.
Would prefer not to reinstall my whole environment, since I customized it a lot already.
Is there a way to make it always default to keyboard?
my specs:
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to rebase to the desktop version you would use the bazzite rebase helper in the terminal with the command
brh rebase bazzite:stable...14 Replies
this is because you are on the bazzite-deck image (the one with the gamemode ui) this automatically applies
-steamdeck to the steam client.
you can tell most games youre not a steamdeck by adding the launch option SteamDeck=0 %command% to the games launch options
if you have other launch options for the game that you used to have there before, you add them after %command% like SteamDeck=0 %command% --launcher-skip
if you do not care about having the steam gamemode ui then you can just rebase to bazzite desktop insteadcool!! 🙂 what does 'rebase' entail, is that a fresh reinstall of everything?
replaces the base system with a different image
does not touch user files
Bazzite Rollback Helper - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
ok, but I assume customizations like widgets need to be redone right?
nope
thats user files
ooh thats much more gentle than what I'm used to from M$ then, neat!
Solution
to rebase to the desktop version you would use the bazzite rebase helper in the terminal with the command
brh rebase bazzite:stableto go back to bazzite-deck you would just replace
bazzite in that command
do not use it to chance your desktop environment to/from gnome though, it will break things in the long run and we will not support you then.ok. not sure why the website suggested this deck version to me after entering my specs, but as long as it works, I'm happy.
because you said yes to start in
steam gamemode
desktop version starts in desktop mode and does not have steam gamemode ui at all
only big picture which is more limitedbeautiful. much better anyways. Must've overlooked this bit for some reason, thanks!!
np
worked like a charm, thanks!!!
