Desktop Mode Help

[Stealth]

Hello, my Internal storage is almost full. 43 gb are used from a game I downloaded in desktop mode. It says it’s in the “deck” folder, but when I open it there are other folders like “pictures” “documents” “downloads” etc, and they’re all empty. I checked properties though and it says that the folder does contain 41 gb.

What can I do to find and remove the 41 gb of files?

[my new friend]

This may help. https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/3279192886593924023/#c3279192886593982079

[....]

I dont get the file system either - but as far as i understand by now there are multiple folders with the same name at different locations with different files ... (im still having trouble finding savegame files ...) - the search function also doesnt seem to work?

[m3talslug]

Do this in desktop mode.
1) open Konsole
2) cd ~/
3) du -hd1

You should get a listing of where all the space is being used up.

[tfk]

/home/deck is your home folder. Everything is stored there. The rest is for the system.

[Reverse Module]

The game is located in ~/.gameName with ~ being the deck or Home folder. To see dot files which means hidden files in Linux you can press Ctrl+H or click on the upper right of the Dolphin window (Dolphin is the name of the File Manager of SteamOS) and select Show Hiden Files or Folders or something similar.

The file system is very different than Windows so keep that in mind. The Steam folder is in ~/.steam, the AppData folder is ~/.local/share and the configuration files for system apps are in ~/.config.

The SteamOS store uses what is called as Flatpaks which are isolated apps from the rest of the system for security and privacy reasons. all of the files for each Flatpak app are in ~/.var.

External MicroSD or hard drives and such can be found in /run/media/ with the first / being the root folder of the entire filesystem.

These are all you need to know I think. If you have any other issue let me know.

[jrepin]

For a graphical display of how storage is used and where big files are you can use Filelight[apps.kde.org] app, which you can install via KDE Discover.

[holdencaulfield]

Hello, do ANYONE here know, why files... disappear in Desktop mode? In .var is only one folder, called "app". Nothing else! I haven't done anything to it. That can not be normal! Also sometimes, the right Trackpad don't work in Desktop mode. Also there is no "mark all files"-option, if I see that right. Such childhood diseases are annoying! Don't the developers also look AT LEAST A BIT on Windows to see what could be done better? Or do they think "We do everything better than Windows, so we simply omit the mark-all function in Explorer!"?! And the controls are really annoying. You can configure the controls manually via Steam, but the interface is just cumbersome. Maybe it's just not described enough for me what you can set exactly how, but I just can't get it out! On my PC, I put all the most important functions on one controller and can use it to control my entire PC, i.e. all frequently used function keys are emulated there. With a program like Joy2Key which is very easy to understand. But Steam prefers to look beautiful than to be functional. It sucks. The fiddling around trying to close a folder with the trackpad! On my PC I have ALT and also F4 ​​on the controller. Steam OS and especially the desktop mode are currently taking my friends away from the device. A table is wobbling on the balcony, maybe I should put the device under there, it serves a useful purpose.

[d[-_-]b]

Originally posted by holdencaulfield:

Hello, do ANYONE here know, why files... disappear in Desktop mode? In .var is only one folder, called "app".

.var is a folder in your home dir and should just have app, in app should be your Flatpaks data. This so far sounds normal . So what's disappeared?

Also sometimes, the right Trackpad don't work in Desktop mode.

This is normal when just booting into desktop mode as the control has to wait for steam application to start for it to load the config.

Also there is no "mark all files"-option

I assume you mean select all
So you can press ctrl+a if you have a keyboard in
There is also a select all in the menu. Click the lines at the top right and go to the sub menu for actions
Here you can enable the menu bar. Or just got to edit . Select all

if I see that right. Such childhood diseases are annoying! Don't the developers also look AT LEAST A BIT on Windows to see what could be done better? Or do they think "We do everything better than Windows, so we simply omit the mark-all function in Explorer!"?!

Not everything has to be like windows. It's not how things have to be.
And windows do take alot of things from Linux but let's not go into who steals what.

And the controls are really annoying. You can configure the controls manually via Steam, but the interface is just cumbersome. Maybe it's just not described enough for me what you can set exactly how, but I just can't get it out! On my PC, I put all the most important functions on one controller and can use it to control my entire PC, i.e. all frequently used function keys are emulated there. With a program like Joy2Key which is very easy to understand. But Steam prefers to look beautiful than to be functional. It sucks. The fiddling around trying to close a folder with the trackpad! On my PC I have ALT and also F4 ​​on the controller. Steam OS and especially the desktop mode are currently taking my friends away from the device.

Maybe you should watch some YouTube videos to better understand it and how each part works.

A table is wobbling on the balcony, maybe I should put the device under there, it serves a useful purpose.

Maybe this could also be the best option, this seems like a simple task for you to actually complete.

[Gillsing]

I'm an elderly person when I'm trying to keep my finger stock still as I press down the right trackpad to do a single click and not a click+drag. Can't find a desktop setting for changing the primary click to another button.

[Gillsing]

Originally posted by Technology Specialist:

Originally posted by Gillsing:

I'm an elderly person when I'm trying to keep my finger stock still as I press down the right trackpad to do a single click and not a click+drag. Can't find a desktop setting for changing the primary click to another button.

You have to set it to something else in big picture mode and controller settings in the steam desktop application.
Here is a guide i followed a while back,
https://youtu.be/piBDVQdVexA
:Retrowave:

I eventually held down then triple dot button and got a list of button functions, which showed that I could hold down the Steam button and pull the right trigger (R2) to do a left click, so I've been using that. It's extremely awkward, so maybe I'll look into what big picture mode is, and how to activate it, and then how to get controller settings more advanced than rumble/haptics on/off.

[[GS] Snaterman]

anybody get this "file system"
I downloaded some artwork, and I created some chrome links to start netflix eg from steam. I now want to use this artwork as icon, tile, backgrond ...
in the file explorer Dolphin, I see home\deck\... there are many folders (downloads, documents, ...), I can also make more folders here.
In steam application (desktop and gaming mode alike) the home/deck folder is completely empy when I search for the files
I may not create any other directories anywhere outside deck folder and I cannot see from Steam any place I can make directories. What sick messed up person designed this. No, that is not my question... Anybody tell me where my files are?

[Duffvader]

Turn on the option "show hidden files"

[[GS] Snaterman]

I can't find that option.
I saw that in Dolphin (file manager) I already checked that way earlier. maybe that's what you mean, but that is not where my problem is.
So my problem is that, in the 'choose icon' file dialog I opened from Steam, I cannot see my files.
In Dolphin in folder "(rootfs)\home", I can click a folder named 'deck', when I do, it opens a folder called Home (capital H here). when I do properties on that folder, I see it is mapped from /dev/nvme0n1p8. but there i can not open that 'folder(?)'
When I am in Dolphin, the folder deck(Home) is full of stuff, files and folders alike. Wen I open that in the 'Choose Icon' dialog, it shows completely empty.
( Only options I have in Choose file dialog are 'folder up' and 'create folder' when I use the last one, steam crashes. the folder is created and shown in Dolphin, but i steam I cant see it, like all other folders.)
Do I have some kind of special twilight Steam deck or something? Why does nobody have these same problems...

[Aggressive Bee]

Just got my steam deck and whenever I use desktop mode, I am unable to use the virtual keyboard with the steam+x binding. Once I exit desktop mode my entire steam deck shuts off and it factory resets wiping all my installs causing me to have to re-download all my games. This is making desktop mode unusable. Any insight?