How to force quit a game in desktop mode?

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

A game I was playing froze and I cannot open the normal menu to quit. I tried all the buttons like "steam", "L5", a combination of different buttons etc but nothing could allow me to quit to desktop, minimize the window or anything like a process window.

Would be a huge oversight if there isn't something like an alt+f4 for these kind of situations. I literally had to force shutdown and restart due to a tiny freeze.

[[?]legit]

Try to open the on screen keyboard (steam + x), sometimes that already makes the game windowed. It might be more convenient to create a keybind for the steam overlay. With that you you can easily exit the game.

[🌎Earth]

Hold Steam button + B for about 5 seconds. It will force close the focused application. Works in gaming and desktop mode.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by 🌎Earth:

Hold Steam button + B for about 5 seconds. It will force close the focused application. Works in gaming and desktop mode.

Yeah I read this too at first but it didn't work for some reason :(

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by ?legit:

Try to open the on screen keyboard (steam + x), sometimes that already makes the game windowed. It might be more convenient to create a keybind for the steam overlay. With that you you can easily exit the game.

Sadly you cannot do this in desktop mode (really weird) and only in steam mode...

[PixieGirrl]

Originally posted by 🌎Earth:

Hold Steam button + B for about 5 seconds. It will force close the focused application. Works in gaming and desktop mode.

This is what I use too.... Always works for me!

[invision2212]

Originally posted by PixieGirrl:

Originally posted by 🌎Earth:

Hold Steam button + B for about 5 seconds. It will force close the focused application. Works in gaming and desktop mode.

This is what I use too.... Always works for me!

This has never worked for me in desktop mode.

[Mahjik]

Try this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1bq7vnw/help_how_do_i_exit_a_game_on_desktop_mode/

[[?]legit]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

Originally posted by ?legit:

Try to open the on screen keyboard (steam + x), sometimes that already makes the game windowed. It might be more convenient to create a keybind for the steam overlay. With that you you can easily exit the game.

Sadly you cannot do this in desktop mode (really weird) and only in steam mode...

It used to work in the past, it would bring up the bpm keyboard. Ever since the "new" bpm, things got less intuitive and more buggy. I have bound L3 to opening the steam overlay, that still works fine for me.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by ?legit:

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

Sadly you cannot do this in desktop mode (really weird) and only in steam mode...

It used to work in the past, it would bring up the bpm keyboard. Ever since the "new" bpm, things got less intuitive and more buggy. I have bound L3 to opening the steam overlay, that still works fine for me.

Thanks. Which key is steam ovelay so I can bind a button to?

[AkoDreamz]

It was so simple its L5 -_- i finally figured it out

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by UnhappyLawbro:

Originally posted by ?legit:

It used to work in the past, it would bring up the bpm keyboard. Ever since the "new" bpm, things got less intuitive and more buggy. I have bound L3 to opening the steam overlay, that still works fine for me.

Thanks. Which key is steam ovelay so I can bind a button to?

Shift+Tab if you're using the PC Steam shell, Ctrl+1 for the console shell.

[Mattyyyy]

holding L5 down hard a si can, button mashed and it still wont close for me