Opening Handheld Daemon on a GPD Win 4 (2023)
Hi! This might sound like a dumb question, but I have a GPD Win 4, which doesn't have a secondary menu button. I haven't found a way to open the Handheld Daemon overlay, as it tells me that I need to press the secondary menu button twice to open it, but I don't have that button.
I tried pressing the main menu (XBox) button twice, pressing XBox + A twice, but nothing works. For now, I've resorted to using the Handheld Daemon plugin so I can change my TDP.
I didn't find much documentation on this subject, so I'm asking here.
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follow the instructions in the hhd readme to remap the buttons. By default its R5
but it needs to be set on what the readme says @nickname
why am i pinged
what and where am i writing
perhaps this is on me
lol?
but does the readme cover gpd and their weird button situation
the handheld wiki
Bazz readme? No but i think the handheld wiki does
i gotta check hold on
on mobile at work so it might beva bit
Btw docs have a .desktop on latest build
thats nice
I have no idea what is their buttob situation
ik the ally can't hold
the gpd cant double press
ok ill write this down and check later but i think i did?
dunno
antheas and not using discourse
ok, I think the QAM button is not working because of this
Solution
iconic combo
what the hell
you dont
also you dont mention hhd-decky or anything about hhd in the readme. Some devices work fully by default but dunno
Antheas while youre here
hikari has a go now
yeah i saw
finally another bazzite contributor with a handheld
nope removed decky mentions
only put that command for devices that arent supprted
yeah but you dont mention the overlay
The whoami service
no i dont
i guess that's important
so how are people are gonna know how to tweak the controlelr settings
i thought steam handled it
very out of the loop on handhelds
I'll add that too
the other ones
like xbox or dualsense
Give me keybinds
in contributor chat
ill edit it later
ok, I managed to fix this by using another Decky plugin called GPD-WinControl to reset the bindings of the back buttons
its double pressing qam for all of them, other than gpd which is hold
indeed
that works too
Ohhhhh i wrote thar
readme was written before that tool
On a different doc
steam gaming mode overview doc has that
I'll fix that
One day ill own a handheld to see how bazzite is outside of desktops
Honestly our emblems should be switched antheas at this point lol
i should have the orange one
of all the linux distros I tried on the GPD Win 4, bazzite is the one that worked the best for me :)
I had strange issues or plain broken features on other distros I tried
Hello! Sorry to Necro a thread, but I am having no luck. My apologies, I am a COMPLETE n00b when it comes to all things linux, but I thought dual booting bazzite on my Win Mini might be a good way to dip my toe in and start moving away from windows. I am SO new though that I don't even know how to GET to the button mapping to map the buttons as described in the guide. I've searched through the steam input settings, and the settings in desktop mode for keyboard and controller etc. If the settings are inside HHD I can't find how to launch it in the first place. I've seen some references to decky plugins but I don't see those in the decky plugin store, so if someone could point me to a "complete idiots starter guide to bazzite and linux in general" if that would cover it, or how to get to the remapping settings mentioned, it would be heavily appreciated.
Big apologies, I feel like I can do a lot of things in Windows, but feel like a complete idiot here 😅
np, follow these steps https://github.com/hhd-dev/hhd#extra-steps-gpd-win-devices
GitHub
GitHub - hhd-dev/hhd: Handheld Daemon, a tool for configuring handh...
Handheld Daemon, a tool for configuring handheld devices. - hhd-dev/hhd
then you just hold R4
@nickname since you called
ring ring ring
Thank you for the resonse! Ok, I feel incredibly dumb that I didn't notice the "in windows" part. Ok, so the follow-up question is that those steps appear to make it so I can access the on-screen keyboard (which I don't technically need but that's still nice) and the right-side menu (which I could already access by pressing the menu+A keys on the win mini). Which key combo is supposed to access the HHD menu?
Note I have tried press and hold, double tap (even though it says that isn't supported figured why not try)
Uhby default the left button is keyboard the right button is qam
You can change them in the settings on desktop
Including using Xbox elite so those buttons become available in steam
Ok, so if I'm understanding correctly I could just bind the Right button to be "PrinScr (0s) PrintScr (0s)" to simulate a double tap of the QAM?
map the L4 and R4 to the print and sysrq
then open hhd
and enable the setting that's named something like
set L4/R4 to QAM
you can open hhd in desktop mode via the handheld daemon app
also, on the GPD win series, double tap of L4/R4 doesn't work. you need to hold instead for the HHD overlay
unfortunate side effect of the implementation of the buttons by GPDGot it! The key step there I completely biffed was I searched in the desktop interface for "HHD", "TDP", and physically searched around, but literally failed to search for "handheld". I appreciate the patience. Promise I don't eat paint chips instead of Doritos!
OMG. There's also just a swipe from the screen to open it too... I could have avoided all of this if I'd known that, lol!