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Steam Dualshock touchpad based hotkeys don't work (restarting steam fixes this)

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9096 · opened 2023-01-12 by geeksville · updated 2023-02-11 · 5 comments · github
Ggeeksville 2023-01-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jan 12, 2022 beta client
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 22.10
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When using a PS5 with a touchpad, the touchpad based hotkeys defined by a custom Steam Input config (steam://controllerconfig/892970/2917085089) the on-screen buttons don't work. The button overlay appears on the screen and the touch based highlighting seems to work, but no 'click' event is ever generated regardless of how hard you press the touchpad.

This behavior worked fine with the stable steam client, so for now I'm reverting back to that. I'm happy to add more details or screenshots if it would help repro.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Connect a dualsense controller (BT or USB behavior is same).
  2. Turn on big picture mode.
  3. Launch a game (I used Valheim). Behavior is identical between native and proton based valheim.
  4. Load a custom controller config that uses the touchpad with the default 'Click' behavior for the hotkeys.
  5. Touch the touchpad to raise the overlay. This works.
  6. Highlight a button on the overlay. This works.
  7. Click down with your finger and release. The GUI does not seem to register the click and no events are sent to the game.

This same sequence works fine with steam stable.

Zzany130 2023-01-29 github

Having this same issue on the steam deck strangely it was working yesterday on the beta channel

Ggeeksville 2023-01-29 github

hmm based on @zany130 comment perhaps @kisak-valve might want to add distro steamos/steam-deck labels to this issue?

Zzany130 2023-01-29 github

My bad looks like it might of been a temporary glitch as it's working now after a reboot. In my case it was actually activating the hotkeys added to the menu but the menu wasn't visible.

Ggeeksville 2023-02-04 github

@kisak-valve I just upgraded to the latest non beta Steam - which is apparently a bit newer than the beta where this bug was 100% reproducable. So the Jan 31 build of Steam fixes this bug! woot!

Ggeeksville 2023-02-11 github

@kisak-valve Alas - I'm reopening because it turns out the current production version of Steam (built feb 10th at 2:38 pm) still has this problem. But it only shows up if Steam has been running for a while. Once it shows up, quitting and relaunching Steam fixes it for many more play hours.

Nothing extracted yet.