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steam deck desktop steam client forcing gamepadui upon launch

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9024 · opened 2022-12-20 by muhchaudhary · updated 2022-12-20 · 0 comments · github
Mmuhchaudhary 2022-12-20 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1671485780
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux "SeamOS 3.3.3"
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I am unable to launch the steam desktop client without it automatically launching the gamepad ui interface. None of the steam sub menu items launch into the desktop client either (the Store, Community, Library, etc. options).

I have checked my Steam.dekstop file to see if I am passing any additional arguments and I am not.
Additonally, launching steam through the terminal with steam also causes steam to launch into the gamepad ui

Below is a gist containing the logs generated by launching steam from the terminal:
https://gist.github.com/muhchaudhary/081862728ae83577c3face2a5ca240bc

I noticed this particular line which seems relevant:
ComputeStartupMode: forcing gamepadui for steamdeck + gamescopesteamwebhelper.sh[424532]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Switch to desktop mode
  2. Attempt to open steam
  3. greeted with gamepad ui and inability to launch any games

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