Horizon Zero Dawn also has this issue. Although many of the controls do work when played remotely from the Steam Deck, the Select button (which opens the map, inventory, and such like) does not. This makes the Steam Deck a distinctly handicapped experience.
Just had this issue with Stray. No input whatsoever was passed to PC.
also experiencing this issue, running debian sid and the steam flatpak on wayland. Games I've tried are Cult of the Lamb and Overcooked.
It seems to be temperamental, when I'm using X11 sometimes if I restart steam it will work, but most of the time it doesn't
Try running sudo chmod o+rw /dev/uinput or installing steam-devices package on the host system
On wayland it might be necessary to install extest.
On NixOS I have this working configuration on wayland (Hyprland):
programs = {
steam = {
enable = true;
extest.enable = true;
};
};
hardware.uinput.enable = true;
users.users.sleroq.extraGroups = [ "uinput" ]; # Not sure if this is required
After adding user to uinput group or installing steam-devices package you have to relogin.
Sources
Nothing extracted yet.
When using a Linux host and Steam Deck client, controls are not always passed from client to host regardless of which control scheme is used on the client. I've not yet established exactly what determines which games will work and which ones won't.
Games that do work are Death Stranding, Control, and Contraption Maker.
Games that don't work are No Man's Sky, Candle, and Mountain.