bbosen - 2023-04-28

If your Steam Deck "Desktop Mode" controls are statically configured for optimal use with LAC, you will find that many of the other things you might want to do outside of LAC are cumbersome. For example, you must use your finger to double-tap on any item that would ordinarily be activated with a mouse click.

You will want to restore the default Steam Deck "Desktop Mode" controls when you are NOT using LAC. Here is how I do that:

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From "Desktop Mode", I activate Steam from the prominent desktop icon.

Then from Steam's prominent dropdown menu, I click or finger-tap to select the following series of menu options:

"Steam" -> "Settings" -> "Controller" -> "Desktop Configuration"

After a brief delay, that yields a graphic display of the SteamDeck controls in the center of the screen, surrounded by a series of buttons with labels naming individual controls. Each button activates a bewildering, poorly documented set of logic that defies my understanding. However....

...at the bottom of that complex, bewildering screen there is a button that says "X Browse Configs". I activate that button either by pressing it with my finger or by pressing the "X" button.

A new menu screen is displayed. Along the left edge a stack of vertical buttons seems to offer preconfigured control mappings arranged according to various priorities like "Recommended", "Personal", "Your Friends", "Community", "Templates", and "Your Other Games". I choose "Recommended", activating that choice with a tap of my finger.

A scrollable list of named control map arrangements is displayed. Each named list is contained within a nice rectangular box, and within that box is a prominent name and a helpful text description in English. I scroll down that set of boxes until I see the one described as "Default Desktop Configuration". I tap that box to activate it. The screen is immediately updated with a big new diagram of the SteamDeck controls with updated labels according to this new control map. "PREVIEW" is prominently displayed across this diagram. At the bottom of that screen there is a small button labelled "Apply Configuration". I press that button to activate it. The "PREVIEW" status label disappears. Then I press the small "DONE" button at the bottom of that screen.

At that point, my Steam Deck's "Desktop Mode" control mapping is restored to the defaults and I can more easily navigate the standard menus and other non-LAC activities.

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To return your controls to the optimal LAC layout, refer back to THIS posting:

https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxaircombat/discussion/lacandsteamdeck/thread/6be56d520f/

 

Last edit: bbosen 2023-04-28