Steam Deck News

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

Desktop Mode

• Fixed showing a black screen at startup if the startup location was set to something prohibited by Family View.
  
• Removed incorrect date display on some DLC hovers.
  
• Fixed the tops of some context menus not being interactable if they overlap the title bar.
  

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed viewing and closing a news event partially blocking mouse and touch input on the window.
  

Desktop Mode

• Added a toggle in notification settings to turn on/off sounds for non-critical notifications.
  
• Fixed taking a screenshot playing two sounds.
  
• Rearranged notifications settings page and made some controls respond to changes in the global settings.
  
• Fixed overlay windows showing in pinned state when overlay is activated for some games (e.g. Warhammer: Vermintide 2).
  

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

Desktop Mode

• Added playing a sound when displaying a notification toast in desktop mode
  
• In Big Picture mode, added playing a sound to some notification toasts where it was previously missing
  
• Fixed links not working in account creation and pre-login help dialogs
  
• Fixed windows sometimes not updating appearance when clicking maximize button
  
• Fixed issue where viewing a user's profile was not working in some older games (e.g Left 4 Dead 2)
  
• Fixed issue where the overlay was not responding to mouse input when there was a controller configuration loaded that included virtual menus
  
• Fixed an issue where the "Invite Friend to Game" dialog didn't work while in a Steam group voice chat channel
  
• Fixed minimize/maximize buttons not working for chat windows created minimized
  

Linux

• Add a setting to improve compatibility with window managers that send an unfocus event before every pointer click event, e.g. openbox. This setting can be found in "Settings->Interface->Enable context menu focus compatibility mode". Enabling this setting will fix dropdown menus being unclickable on these window managers.
  

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

In-Game Overlay

• Fixed some issues where some taller sections in controller summary layout preview screen were cut-off at the bottom when viewed in the in-game overlay
  
• Fixed error message sometimes displayed while showing a notification.
  

Desktop Mode

• Fixed date/time tooltip on events rendering full screen.
  
• Fixed emoticons in chat expanding to the entire window on hover.
  
• Fixed app icons for events in What's New not loading on first click.
  
• Fixed style of low battery notification
  

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed a hang when resuming from sleep.
  

Desktop Mode

• Improved responsivity of showing systray menu
  
• Fixed chat window not being raised when clicking a chat notification while docked mode is enabled
  
• Fixed persona name in top bar occasionally displaying incorrectly if it started with #.
  
• Fixed rare crash when displaying some tooltips.
  
• Fixed some web pages being viewable in tabbed browser even if Family View should have restricted that content.
  
• Properly show an error when failing to load existing awards given when showing the award dialog for user generated content, reviews, discussion posts, and comments.
  

Steam Input

• Fix bug where configurations could fail to get deleted
  
• Fix bug where configurations could disappear from the configuration browser after deleting a different configuration