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c/bazzite · by calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 86d

Steam typing issues

When I use KDE connect on my android phone, I cannot type uppercase characters. When I shift to uppercase on the phone, I can send the character to the PC, but it will be lowercase there.

Context, I am using Bazzite on AMD with GeForce through a 4k TV, so console style set up.

So I tried using the steam in game keyboard instead but have two further issues there:

  1. The in game overlay UI scale is tiny compared to how big picture looks when not playing a game. Pre launch everything is a nice size for a 43" display, but in game all the UI is tiny

  2. The in game keyboard won't actually input any text in the game - I'm triggering this via the new steam controller for what it's worth (steam button and x)

Any suggestions?

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bruce965@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 85d (8 replies)

  1. I am not sure I understand entirely. Could you share a screenshot? What happens if you lower the game's resolution?

  2. I also noticed this regression since last update, I assume this will be fixed soon. It works in Gamemode for me. Only desktop and Big Picture mode are problematic for me.

calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d

Thanks mate, I'll grab some pics ASAP but to clarify the issue, steam has a setting to adjust the UI scaling when you're using a TV since you are sitting further away. That works fine in big picture, the interface is nice and big and readable.

I'm playing in 4k but over 3 metres. When you launch the steam overlay in game the UI is suddenly tiny and not full screen; the text is unreadable and I'd expect it to look the same scale as out of game. No idea what to adjust to fix.

Likewise when I launch the steam keyboard in game, it's tiny. I can interact with it but I can't get it to type, but that's a separate issue lol

calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d (6 replies)

Here it is outside of a game

Here it is inside

Changing the game resolution doesn't affect this at all unfortunately

bruce965@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 85d (5 replies)

Okay, I tried and managed to (kind of) reproduce the issue. It didn't happen automatically for me, probably because I don't have a 4K monitor.

Could you try toggling these 3 options? In particular, the "Automatically Scale User Interface" option might solve the issue.

Screenshot

I only tried it in Gamemode, not in Big Picture mode. Let me know if I should have tried the other one instead.

EDIT: ah... my apologies I checked your other reply again and realized that you had already tried toggling the "Automatically Scale User Interface" option... I'm afraid I'm out of ideas, if I leave that option on I cannot reproduce this issue on my hardware.

calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 84d (4 replies)

Thank you for looking into this for me! Forgive the potentially stupid question but what is Gamemode vs Big Picture?

I'm coming from windows 10, so I'm not a Linux expert by any means. I have KDE plasma sort of replicating what windows would do, then I'm launching steam in to big picture. That setting regarding 43" scaling is only active outside a game though, it's odd. It's deactivated when on the in game overlay but activating it there doesn't fix anything.

It's not game breaking but it is for sure annoying!

bruce965@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 84d (3 replies)

Gamemode Steam Gaming Mode (sorry, I used an inaccurate name) is a mode exclusive to SteamOS/Bazzite (documentation).

Okay, I'll give it another try in Big Picture mode as soon as I have time.

calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 84d (2 replies)

Ah OK got it. Really appreciate your help!

bruce965@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 84d (1 reply)

I have bad news... I can't reproduce it. Perhaps it does behave differently on 4K displays? Unfortunately I cannot test it.

The only thing I could think of is to try with gamescope. In Desktop Mode, you can do that by exiting Steam, opening a terminal, and running gamescope -e -f -w 3840 -h 2160 -- steam -tenfoot -steamos. This seems to work great for me... but to be honest, also running Big Picture mode without gamescope seems to work for me. You could give it a try and see how it goes.

Another thing you could try is to add gamescope -e -f -w 3840 -h 2160 -- %command% to the launch options of a specific game. But this might not be what you want at all. Personally, I wouldn't do this.

Another very reasonable thing you could do is just wait a few days and see if the developers are going to notice and fix the issue.

calamitycastle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d

Thank you bruce965!