How do I exit fullscreen mode to get back to the desktop when running a program on desktop?

[BDNeon]

It seems PCSX2 is finally working with the last iteration, and games boot fine in fullscreen, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to minimize or exit a fullscreen program. I can bring up the cursor by holding the steam button and moving the mouse around, but holding Steam + B doesn't work at stopping the program, and the only thing I found to do was hold the power button and either shut down or restart to get out of it. Not a HUGE deal, granted, but I'm guessing there must be some sort of command or something I'm just not aware of.

[GEARScience]

I was also having this issue, and my best solution for this was to:

- Go to desktop mode
- Pull up steam as an app
- Click "Steam" in the top right, then Settings -> Controller -> Desktop Configuration
- Bind one back paddle to the "Win" key, and one back paddle to the "Pg Down" key. (While I was at it, I also mapped the triggers to right and left mouse click, because clicking on the track pad without moving the mouse can be tricky.)

Now, when you load up a full-screen program, you can press the "Pg Down" paddle while holding the "Win" key paddle to minimize the program.

I hope this helps!

[BDNeon]

Publicado originalmente por GEARScience:

I was also having this issue, and my best solution for this was to:

- Go to desktop mode
- Pull up steam as an app
- Click "Steam" in the top right, then Settings -> Controller -> Desktop Configuration
- Bind one back paddle to the "Win" key, and one back paddle to the "Pg Down" key. (While I was at it, I also mapped the triggers to right and left mouse click, because clicking on the track pad without moving the mouse can be tricky.)

Now, when you load up a full-screen program, you can press the "Pg Down" paddle while holding the "Win" key paddle to minimize the program.

I hope this helps!

Thanks!

[Sylver]

How can you bind the back paddles? Only Buttons I see are regular Steam Controller Front + Trackpads, but no back paddles.

[ugafan]

Edit Layout. They're listed under buttons. L4, R4, L5, R5.

[ReBoot]

The usual way to close fullscreen stuff is the escape key. Have you tried that?

[Sylver]

Publicado originalmente por ugafan:

Edit Layout. They're listed under buttons. L4, R4, L5, R5.

When I get to Desktop mode and go in the Controller Setup. There is no option for layout change. Only Front + Trackpads.

However, I simply added Right Trackpad (Mouse 1) as Full Screen on/off command in Duckstation. Works good that way.

[Izeyash]

Publicado originalmente por Sylver:

Publicado originalmente por ugafan:

Edit Layout. They're listed under buttons. L4, R4, L5, R5.

When I get to Desktop mode and go in the Controller Setup. There is no option for layout change. Only Front + Trackpads.

However, I simply added Right Trackpad (Mouse 1) as Full Screen on/off command in Duckstation. Works good that way.

You're not looking properly. I bound my back buttons no problem after I realized that the desktop configuration window literally points to the buttons in the back.

The empty spaces that you can select are the back buttons.

[ZenChu]

I found out that you can use your mouse (hold steam button and move with Right touchpad) to the top-left corner.
A blue corner will light up when you get close and when you keep moving in to the corner with the mouse, it will simulate an alt-tab. I've closed many full-screen emulators like that.

[Sylver]

Nope, still wont work.

When I do what you suggest I get these Options:

Maximize
Minimize
More Actions ->
Close

-> Move
Resize
Keep Above Others
Keep Below Others
Fullscreen
Shade
No Border
Set Windows Shortcut
Configure Special Windows Settings
Configure Special Application Settings
Configure Windows Manager

No link to Backpeddals though

[Mykdee]

Publicado originalmente por ZenChu:

I found out that you can use your mouse (hold steam button and move with Right touchpad) to the top-left corner.
A blue corner will light up when you get close and when you keep moving in to the corner with the mouse, it will simulate an alt-tab. I've closed many full-screen emulators like that.

This worked for me! I was completely stumped

[WalmartSecurity]

AHHH, NO to all these ideas.

For one, you are suggesting we double purpose the trigger buttons? What happens when someone presses it while in a game like IDK ps1, ps2, etc that actually use them?

Minimize the game while in the middle of playing?

The best idea I have heard is we add the emulators to our steam library and then stop using desktop mode.

Then, you will have access to the already programmed and binded STEAM and ... buttons, which I was led to understand brings you back to the main steam os game library window...?

I for one, am already tired of having to switch to desktop mode everytime I want to play something, just too lazy to take the time to do this for any of my emulators.

[GEARScience]

Publicado originalmente por WalmartSecurity:

AHHH, NO to all these ideas.

For one, you are suggesting we double purpose the trigger buttons? What happens when someone presses it while in a game like IDK ps1, ps2, etc that actually use them?

Minimize the game while in the middle of playing?

The best idea I have heard is we add the emulators to our steam library and then stop using desktop mode.

Then, you will have access to the already programmed and binded STEAM and ... buttons, which I was led to understand brings you back to the main steam os game library window...?

I for one, am already tired of having to switch to desktop mode everytime I want to play something, just too lazy to take the time to do this for any of my emulators.

So, the whole reason why I wanted to be able to minimize emulator games was so that I could access Discord and stream the game. If you run the emulator from Steam, then you run into the issue of only being to access Discord through Steam, as otherwise you would have to switch to Desktop which would close the game. Discord does not work very well when you set it to launch through Steam, and there are no keybindings that make it easier. So you kind of have to launch both through Desktop if you want to stream through Steam.

[WalmartSecurity]

I have no idea wtf quotes will not work for me.

I am not about to quote you quoting me in my reply to you. 😉

I take back what I said about adding stuff to the steam library, that thing SUCKS when it comes to 3rd party apps.

As a reply to you, I would say play full screen window mode? Then you would still have the \/ and x and whatever else on the top corner.

That is what I do to solve the problem of how to quit stuff since none of the desktop mode emulators are specifically programmed to respond to steam deck controls.

I hope that helps at least a little.

[Marlock]

if you're going to run the emulators in desktop mode and not use steam as an intermediary, the controller buttons will need another intermediary software to help them work

I hope by now the "SC Controller" app must have included steam deck controller support... if it did then you'll be able to define system-wide and per-app controller schemes in a friendly interface... not as complete as steam's controller configs but still very nice

[wushumasterku]

i mapped the back button to win-key. But it doesn't work while a game is opened. It works when in desktop mode, no games running