Steam Desktop Mode Scaling
Setting scaling to 200% but steam not following the setting as can be seen in the screenshot below, the text and ui are so small. Adding paramter -forcedesktopscaling 2 also doesn’t work.
But if i use scaled by the system, steam scale correctly but it’s blurry. Any idea how to set steam scaling without it being blur.
Device is Legion Go using Bazzite Deck Inatallation.
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It's a steam thing, simply doesn't care about your scaling
You can edit the .desktop file, uno moment
Prepend it with
GDK_SCALE=2where i can find that . file i want to that too
idk the gnome way to do it for bazzite
oh ok thanks
just add the variable to Environment Variables section
ok got it thanks bro🫡🫡
Did it work for you? Mine still small
did you put it here?
Yes i’m
Putting STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=2 in /etc/environment will make steam scale correctly, but the steam osk layout will show slight ui error. The env and argument are ignored.
that keyboard can likely be fixed (scaled vertically) with CSS loader
I use a similar theme to make my keyboard 25% smaller on the deck
https://deckthemes.com/themes/view?themeId=6f827f3b-3ba6-4b6e-851c-f912c3d15217
smaller keyboard works in game mode, but switch to desktop it doesn’t work.
should be applyable to desktop mode
check your CSS loader settings
there's a checkbox for desktop themes
Yes i already enabled it, but somehow scaling ignored the css value. When scaling disabled, css value applied correctly.
for anyone here , the GUI editor for the steam desktop file was creating duplicate .desktop files.
Editing manually .local/share/applications/steam.desktop to add -forcedesktopscaling 1.5 before the %U worked