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=2
where i can find that . file i want to that too
idk the gnome way to do it for bazzite
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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?
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Yes i’m
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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.
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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.
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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