Left touch pad scrolling in desktop mode changed to be worse with update 3.5.17

[Gilligan]

Before the left touch pad acted as a jog wheel of sorts. It was so perfect and I thought it was very intuitive and easy to use. You move your thumb in a circular motion to scroll up or down on a page in desktop mode. The first time I used it I was like "omg this is awesome" (I am easily amused, deal with it).
Now after the latest os update it was changed to just be a scroll wheel. Slide up and down to go up and down respectively. Which is fine enough, but the main problem now is it is preset to be super sensitive. I move my thumb 1/8 of an inch (a few mm) and it shoots to the bottom of the page. In the kde settings I can't change the mouse sensitivity because if I turn that down, it fixes the fast touch pad, but then the actual mouse is crazy slow. So that is not an acceptable solution to switch back and forth constantly.

I think it is a setting in steam that changed but I do not know what or where it is. Anyone have any ideas?
Edit: The touchpad behaviour changes in my case too when I put the steamdeck to sleep then wake it back up as another post mentioned. And also only sometimes when I dock/undock the steamdeck.

[ugafan]

It can be found under Settings --> Controller --> Desktop Layout

[Gilligan]

Originally posted by ugafan:

It can be found under Settings --> Controller --> Desktop Layout

Thank you, I must have looked at that page at least 4 times and still completely missed that button at the bottom.
The settings were still set as they should be with the touchpad to act as a scrollwheel with a circular motion but it wasn't working.
The sensitivity was turned way up too. I just changed the settings to something else and changed them back to reset them and now it seems to work as it used to. yay!
Thank you ugafan

[Gilligan]

Evidently this problem is still Not resolved. Every time I dock or undock, it reverts the settings back to the undesired behaviour. I then have to go back to settings > Controller > Desktop Layout and reapply the default layout and everything is back to normal until the next dock/undock. (Edit: It also does it when I sleep then wake the steamdeck as someone else mentioned)
Anybody else seeing this?

[TahirA24]

Originally posted by Gilligan:

Evidently this problem is still Not resolved. Every time I dock or undock, it reverts the settings back to the undesired behaviour. I then have to go back to settings > Controller > Desktop Layout and reapply the default layout and everything is back to normal until the next dock/undock.
Anybody else seeing this?

Yep I am having the same issue... I also love the circular scroll but I have noticed whenever I put the steam deck to sleep and turn it back on it reverts to the up/down scroll instead of the circular scroll. Only way I have been able to fix it is open the controller settings in steam and close it.

[Gilligan]

Originally posted by TahirA24:

Yep I am having the same issue... I also love the circular scroll but I have noticed whenever I put the steam deck to sleep and turn it back on it reverts to the up/down scroll instead of the circular scroll. Only way I have been able to fix it is open the controller settings in steam and close it.

I have been managing with this problem since my original post but I think I kind of have it figured out. The TLDR is that if I hit X to bring up the keyboard then B to close the keyboard, then the left touchpad is a jog-wheel again. This evidently makes steam grab control of the touchpad again.

Somewhere along the line steam is losing control of the touchpad. If I'm in desktop mode and I exit steam, then the touchpad always goes to the slide up down control (so it's the default kde desktop behaviour). Then starting steam again makes it go back to the jog-wheel style. Steam is taking over the controls for the desktop when it is running (which I actually really like btw) and somehow with standby or undock it is losing control of the touchpad, just the left touchpad that I have noticed.
But as I stated above, bringing up then closing the keyboard makes steam grab control back.