When I use KDE connect on my android phone, I cannot type uppercase characters. When I shift to uppercase on the phone, I can send the character to the PC, but it will be lowercase there.

Context, I am using Bazzite on AMD with GeForce through a 4k TV, so console style set up.

So I tried using the steam in game keyboard instead but have two further issues there:

  1. The in game overlay UI scale is tiny compared to how big picture looks when not playing a game. Pre launch everything is a nice size for a 43" display, but in game all the UI is tiny

  2. The in game keyboard won’t actually input any text in the game - I’m triggering this via the new steam controller for what it’s worth (steam button and x)

Any suggestions?

  • bruce965@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 months ago

    1. I am not sure I understand entirely. Could you share a screenshot? What happens if you lower the game’s resolution?

    2. I also noticed this regression since last update, I assume this will be fixed soon. It works in Gamemode for me. Only desktop and Big Picture mode are problematic for me.

    • misery mansion@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      Thanks mate, I’ll grab some pics ASAP but to clarify the issue, steam has a setting to adjust the UI scaling when you’re using a TV since you are sitting further away. That works fine in big picture, the interface is nice and big and readable.

      I’m playing in 4k but over 3 metres. When you launch the steam overlay in game the UI is suddenly tiny and not full screen; the text is unreadable and I’d expect it to look the same scale as out of game. No idea what to adjust to fix.

      Likewise when I launch the steam keyboard in game, it’s tiny. I can interact with it but I can’t get it to type, but that’s a separate issue lol

    • misery mansion@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      Here it is outside of a game

      Here it is inside

      Changing the game resolution doesn’t affect this at all unfortunately

      • bruce965@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        Okay, I tried and managed to (kind of) reproduce the issue. It didn’t happen automatically for me, probably because I don’t have a 4K monitor.

        Could you try toggling these 3 options? In particular, the “Automatically Scale User Interface” option might solve the issue.

        Screenshot

        I only tried it in Gamemode, not in Big Picture mode. Let me know if I should have tried the other one instead.

        EDIT: ah… my apologies I checked your other reply again and realized that you had already tried toggling the “Automatically Scale User Interface” option… I’m afraid I’m out of ideas, if I leave that option on I cannot reproduce this issue on my hardware.

        • misery mansion@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          Thank you for looking into this for me! Forgive the potentially stupid question but what is Gamemode vs Big Picture?

          I’m coming from windows 10, so I’m not a Linux expert by any means. I have KDE plasma sort of replicating what windows would do, then I’m launching steam in to big picture. That setting regarding 43" scaling is only active outside a game though, it’s odd. It’s deactivated when on the in game overlay but activating it there doesn’t fix anything.

          It’s not game breaking but it is for sure annoying!

          • bruce965@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 months ago

            Gamemode Steam Gaming Mode (sorry, I used an inaccurate name) is a mode exclusive to SteamOS/Bazzite (documentation).

            Okay, I’ll give it another try in Big Picture mode as soon as I have time.

              • bruce965@lemmy.ml
                2·
                2 months ago

                I have bad news… I can’t reproduce it. Perhaps it does behave differently on 4K displays? Unfortunately I cannot test it.

                The only thing I could think of is to try with gamescope. In Desktop Mode, you can do that by exiting Steam, opening a terminal, and running gamescope -e -f -w 3840 -h 2160 -- steam -tenfoot -steamos. This seems to work great for me… but to be honest, also running Big Picture mode without gamescope seems to work for me. You could give it a try and see how it goes.

                Another thing you could try is to add gamescope -e -f -w 3840 -h 2160 -- %command% to the launch options of a specific game. But this might not be what you want at all. Personally, I wouldn’t do this.

                Another very reasonable thing you could do is just wait a few days and see if the developers are going to notice and fix the issue.