You can open desktop mode inside of gamemode, just like any other game or application. I find it easier to use most desktop apps this way instead of adding them individually to steam.

To do this, download this script. Save it as a script and make the script executable. Finally right click the file and “add to steam”.

Some important notes with this: You can’t exit steam while running the desktop this way, so apps that require closing steam (like steam rom manager) won’t work. There are also a few apps that do weird things, like cryoutilities shows up super tiny this way. But generally most everything works.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I’ve finally got round to actually running this and I don’t seem to have any control other than the touchscreen. It’s there some trick to getting the touchpads and buttons to control the desktop?

    • FubarberryOP
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      21 year ago

      It runs just like any other steam game, so you’ll need to set a desktop friendly control scheme from steam input.

      I’d recommend doing the default web browser one. It has both mouse control, scroll wheel control, and several other useful keybinds.