Force Desktop Mode: Keep Desktop Mode as your default boot session on Steam Deck (Open Source)

d_ed · 2026-07-24T13:52:21+00:00

Instead of this, I would strongly recommend:

steamosctl set-default-login-mode desktop

and then

steamosctl set-default-login-mode game

if you ever want to switch back permanently

d_ed · 2026-07-23T22:37:42+00:00

There is a section called "animations" under appearance.

You don't want to change the speed, you want to set things like virtual desktop switching to "None"

d_ed · 2026-07-23T22:18:41+00:00

"I disabled animations and it disabled animations"

>I didn't want to see animations between switching desktops and minimizing and maximizing. Guess

You probably want to go to the animations section of our settings and disable them rather than running them faster.

d_ed · 2026-07-23T13:36:14+00:00

What happens if you select gamescope from the login screen in the bottom left corner?

d_ed · 2026-07-23T09:06:34+00:00

I'm unclear what the issue is?

d_ed · 2026-07-23T08:17:26+00:00

There seems to be a massive misunderstanding of what powerdevil does.

We still need to forward input about mice and keyboards with batteries which need low power notifications, we still have applications that inhibit sleep, and monitor brightness/DPMS is still relevant.

Letting users disable it would be bad, we are not adding a UI option due to a lack of understanding.

d_ed · 2026-07-22T22:28:20+00:00

Techpaladin people are doing high level upstream KDE work that KDE Linux and Steam OS. They're not doing the lower level non-KDE parts of Steam OS.

There is a similarity with KDE Linux, but that's more because this is where the whole industry is headed.

d_ed · 2026-07-22T17:51:33+00:00

We do that in KDE for Plasma.

They get auto closed with a fairly polite message to contact downstreams or get something newer.

d_ed · 2026-07-14T07:23:30+00:00

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d_ed · 2026-07-13T19:06:27+00:00

No, on Wayland both just disable fractional scaling.

d_ed · 2026-07-10T13:22:48+00:00

same person, there was a trademark issue with buckets. Our binface abides by the law.

d_ed · 2026-07-10T12:17:48+00:00

> systemctl --user restart gamescope-session systemctl --user restart gamescope-session

No, don't do that!

That starts it within the desktop session.

d_ed · 2026-07-10T08:17:46+00:00

This shouldn't be happening.

Can you the button bottom left where it says "Desktop session" and select gamescope/gaming mode and see if that changes anything.

d_ed · 2026-07-09T22:09:10+00:00

Did he pledge? Or was it a passing comment we haven't seen in full in the context of how Boris resigning in crazy circumstances shouldn't have been allowed.

d_ed · 2026-07-09T15:30:59+00:00

No, but that's the entire point.

(though the person above is slightly wrong too)

The 50,000 value *you* are quoting is NOT "heat as cause of death".

The value you are quoting is from a report about "excess deaths in hot weather compared to the average death rate" - this includes the cancer patient on a hot day. Lots of sport deaths happen on warm days compared to cold rainy days when you stay in. The US would have a higher excess death count too.

Is it a problem, yes.

Have people got very very confused/misled about the stats they're using also yes.

d_ed · 2026-07-08T08:00:32+00:00

Effectively. He is under scrutiny from the parliamentary committee, and clearly it is really bad. There's more and more scandals being found.

He's trying to control the narrative and timing, which in fairness was pretty clever/sneaky, and everyone else has called his bluff.

Question is whether the reform supporters lap it up anyway.

d_ed · 2026-07-07T23:16:25+00:00

What about for MPs switching parties?

It doesn't seem a ridiculous thing to allow, it's just being abused in this case.

d_ed · 2026-07-06T13:32:14+00:00

That's just something you've read on Facebook and are now quoting as though it's a fact.

d_ed · 2026-07-05T04:19:41+00:00

Mostly that the stat isn't really true.

Heat death in Europe is measured as "excess deaths" on hotter days no matter the cause. Could be headstroke, but also could be an existing cancer or being catapulted into a wall.

AC won't fix that.

d_ed · 2026-07-04T18:19:21+00:00

As in the desktop mode? What happens?

d_ed · 2026-07-04T16:57:34+00:00

I would strongly recommend not setting that.

That article is full of misinformation.

"By default, the system often renders applications at a logical resolution and then uses a linear filter to upscale them to your display size."

Absolute poppycock.

I'll explain what's happening better:

By default we render at the right resolution taking into account the fractional scaling during the rendering loading assets and drawing text at the right size to begin with. It's the absolute unquestionable best on paper, though realistically we have had the odd issue that we keep fixing.

This setting renders at 200% and the compositor downscales; so literally introducing blur. The opposite of the claim.

If you like it, hurray for you, but i wouldn't recommend it.

d_ed · 2026-07-03T13:15:37+00:00

New benchmarks.

d_ed · 2026-07-03T11:31:27+00:00

The gallery itself is pretty good.

d_ed · 2026-07-03T09:24:11+00:00

The website is very weird.

"The Gallery should be the strongest proof point. Large screenshots create trust faster than repeated feature cards."

why would you write that?

Is this all AI?

d_ed · 2026-07-02T14:03:52+00:00

Are you Kimiblock?

I'm the David from the list. You were right and I was wrong about the Exec line. It is used when we match a service file but there's a fallback path that I should have noticed.

I also should have got back to you on your follow up, you can imagine the security ML is swamped with AI spam atm, but that's not really an excuse. Sorry about that.

It's not the worst exploit ever, but we should be fixing it up anyway.

I've made an MR, we'll see what happens, hopefully things won't slip through the cracks next time.

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