Steam Deck UK Keyboard layout?

[gibbon]

Can we please have a standard UK QWERTY keyboard layout? The layout is awkward for those of us who are not used to it

[darrenphillips666]

i think mine's the uk layout, the onscreen one

[gibbon]

Originally posted by darrenphillips666:

i think mine's the uk layout, the onscreen one

you sure about that? the onscreen keyboard for me has @ on 2

[Cypherous]

Originally posted by gibbon:

Originally posted by darrenphillips666:

i think mine's the uk layout, the onscreen one

you sure about that? the onscreen keyboard for me has @ on 2

Thats usually pretty standard for mobile devices as they usually assume you don't have the screen space for a full sized one and usually have other options for finding the other special characters

My phone defaults to @ over 2

[gibbon]

Originally posted by Cypherous:

Thats usually pretty standard for mobile devices as they usually assume you don't have the screen space for a full sized one and usually have other options for finding the other special characters

My phone defaults to @ over 2

But the Steam Deck has a full sized keyboard, not a mobile keyboard.

The issue is that it is a full size US layout, not a full size UK layout. So the key for : and ; is next to L, which is where @ and ~ should be

[Stew]

Im going to bump this one because a UK layout would be nice.

Even on desktop mode when i change the layout to UK it goes back to US every time i reboot which is annoying.

[Jake Sully]

Originally posted by Stew:

Im going to bump this one because a UK layout would be nice.

Even on desktop mode when i change the layout to UK it goes back to US every time i reboot which is annoying.

That is because US one is set as default keyboard. You can change US one to UK so UK keyboard layout is set as default.

[gibbon]

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

Originally posted by Stew:

Im going to bump this one because a UK layout would be nice.

Even on desktop mode when i change the layout to UK it goes back to US every time i reboot which is annoying.

That is because US one is set as default keyboard. You can change US one to UK so UK keyboard layout is set as default.

No, you can't. Changing the default to UK will still have the @ over 2, the tilde and # in the wrong place, pipe \ in the wrong place too.
This means that things like passwords become an utter pain to type for those of us who are not in the states

[Jake Sully]

Originally posted by gibbon:

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

That is because US one is set as default keyboard. You can change US one to UK so UK keyboard layout is set as default.

No, you can't. Changing the default to UK will still have the @ over 2, the tilde and # in the wrong place, pipe \ in the wrong place too.
This means that things like passwords become an utter pain to type for those of us who are not in the states

You didn't get it. He was referring to it switching between US and UK one. If you set it to default then it won't switch to US one on reboot. So yes you can, secondly those symbols you see means you can hold down button and select more.

[gibbon]

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

Originally posted by gibbon:

No, you can't. Changing the default to UK will still have the @ over 2, the tilde and # in the wrong place, pipe \ in the wrong place too.
This means that things like passwords become an utter pain to type for those of us who are not in the states

You didn't get it. He was referring to it switching between US and UK one. If you set it to default then it won't switch to US one on reboot. So yes you can, secondly those symbols you see means you can hold down button and select more.

I know what the symbols are, they are just in the wrong place for a UK layout. You cannot make the on screen KB a UK layout. Valve did not implement one

[d[-_-]b]

+1 in desktop mode I've swapped to a UK layout but the on-screen is clearly US.

There is a few differences for these layouts. Most notably there's no £

[Stew]

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

Originally posted by gibbon:

No, you can't. Changing the default to UK will still have the @ over 2, the tilde and # in the wrong place, pipe \ in the wrong place too.
This means that things like passwords become an utter pain to type for those of us who are not in the states

You didn't get it. He was referring to it switching between US and UK one. If you set it to default then it won't switch to US one on reboot. So yes you can, secondly those symbols you see means you can hold down button and select more.

actually yes it does, the amount of times i've set it to the UK layout make sure its default. even tried to delete the US layout from kde settings it goes back to US layout regardless when you reboot and go back into desktop mode.

[Fid]

+1
This is really disappointing that Steam doesn’t support English localisation correctly.

[Waldherz]

Originally posted by Stew:

Originally posted by Jake Sully:

You didn't get it. He was referring to it switching between US and UK one. If you set it to default then it won't switch to US one on reboot. So yes you can, secondly those symbols you see means you can hold down button and select more.

actually yes it does, the amount of times i've set it to the UK layout make sure its default. even tried to delete the US layout from kde settings it goes back to US layout regardless when you reboot and go back into desktop mode.

Happens even with the german layout. It constantly goes back to the US layout.

[ian-lincoln]

Well they seem to have fixed it. rebooted and still works correctly. getting the date to English was harder. Was not gonna fuss but setting a zoom meeting was in American.
Changing to UK time didn't do it. Right click on time select modify time format then select British English. Sorts out @#£|.

[Fid]

How can this still be an issue 3 years after launch?