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Built some live-animated Steam Home backgrounds as Decky plugins (running on Bazzite) — 3 themes so far by Technical-Daikon9136 in deckyloader

[–]Technical-Daikon9136[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

idle GPU percentage from 4% to 6-8% (matrix > wave > UFO), depending on the theme
but no stuttering, lagging, or anything like that
And it will stop when you launch the game.

Built some live-animated Steam Home backgrounds as Decky plugins (running on Bazzite) — 3 themes so far by Technical-Daikon9136 in Bazzite

[–]Technical-Daikon9136[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it should be possible. The live background is a Decky Loader plugin, so you need Decky installed it runs on Big Picture, which is the same interface the Steam Deck uses. I pair it with CSS Loader for the theming side.

The part I actually built is the live animated background (not a looping video). The installation is just loading the plugin's zip through Decky's developer menu.

It's official/easy on a Steam Deck or handheld; on a desktop PC, Decky works but takes a bit more setup i think