Also tested on Ubuntu 17.04 and on my laptop. Problem persists. Ordering of the two characters input before the keyboard application gets stuck seems completely random. Naturally this prevents me from using desktop mode for anything that requires typing of any sort.
As of May 8, 2017, the controller window gets stuck in a different manner. Now it happens after the first input character.
If anyone is listening, June 8 build, Keyboard window still unusable in desktop mode on Ubuntu 17.04.
I'm experiencing a similar problem.
Looks like the onscreen keyboard window kinda loses focus.
When using the onscreen keyboard in desktop mode, I can click somewhere else with the mouse and then back into the onscreen keyboard window and the controller is responsive again and I can hover over letters with the touchpads. As soon as I try to enter any character it's stuck again.
This does not happen on Windows.
Built: Jul 14 2017, at 01:07:13
Steam API: v017
Steam package versions: 1499997556
Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Bug still present.
Controlling the desktop using a Steam Controller works perfectly, the only exception being the on-screen keyboard, which is unusable.
Issue still present on Ubuntu 17.10.
It seems to be! Thanks for the heads up, I installed devilspie as suggested in the Steam Community thread and it worked well.
Nothing extracted yet.
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam Controller Keyboard gets stuck consistently at the second character input.
In general, it works very strangely. Example: I open gedit, I alt-tab to the keyboard screen. I input the characters "a" and then "b". The keyboard application gets stuck; it completely stops responding to the Steam Controller buttons. The input is not yet sent to gedit (not even the "a") but I assume this is intended. I minimize the keyboard, and gedit now has "ab".
I do the same thing, entering the letters "o" followed by "k". It gets stuck, I minimize it. Now gedit has the string "ko". I tested several times and it's always "ko" as far as I can see.
When gedit is in focus and the keyboard window is next to it, I can successfully enter several characters and gedit gets them as they are typed.
This was tested on beta and on non-beta.
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