Bazzite-deck: How do I skip Steam or quickly exit to Desktop?
Hey guys,
I've been trialing bazzite-deck on my AMD laptop and it's been great. Thing is, I'd also like to use the same image for general productivity tasks, and was wondering if there's an option or a way to skip loading into Steam/gamescope when booting up (or maybe have a startup script look for the Caps Lock/Shift key state or something, and skip Steam if its pressed)?
Alternatively, if that's not possible or too complicated, would it be possible to create a custom hotkey to automatically exit Steam and enter the desktop mode?
Thanks!
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i think you can do
ujust toggle-autologinThanks but that's not what I'm after though. I do want autologin, but I'd like a way to either (preferably) skip Steam dynamically (eg: checking a keypress state), or have a hotkey to be able to quickly kill Steam and swith to the desktop.
dont think thats possible, atm the only solution that i am aware of is no autologin and use SDDM to decide what you log into or autologin to gamescope session or if its possible roll your own image with autologin to desktop and have a modified return to gamemode desktop file that relogs you into gamescope-session (although idk if that will actually work though)
Hmm, how does the exit to desktop mode option work in the gamemode? If I can get the command line for it, I could add it as a favorite in Steam, so it'll be just one click then to get to my desktop.
steamos-session-select plasma
the steamos-session-select script then depending on the image will interpret plasma as desktop and send you to either gnome or plasma desktop depending on the image (since steamos is plasma only)
doublecheck the script itself though as it might have more flagsThanks, will give that a try 🙂
gamescope will go into gamescope session while plasma or desktop will take you into your desktop session
both require autologin to be enabled i believe, without autologin, both kick you to the SDDM loginNo luck with the script unfortunately @HikariKnight . The script itself works when I run it manually (from Plasma, just to test), but it doesn't seem to work when I run it from gamemode Steam - the screen sort of just blinks and I'm back to Steam. I made the script write a log (to /tmp) but I don't see a log there, so I don't think it's even running.
I think now I want to make it go straight to desktop by default, without entering gamemode. I saw online that people were suggesting running this:
steamos-session-select plasma-wayland-persistent - so I ran that, saw a few lines saying it was switching or something but then it caused my system to freeze completely (could not even switch to other ttys). After a hard reboot, I'm back to gamemode. 😦