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
    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.