Adding Pause/Break key to Keyboard & Mouse emulation (steam input)

[Mominjo]

I noticed that there is no Pause/Break key to map in the steam input. In several strategy games, it is not possible to remap the Pause/Break key in the game's settings and as there is no Pause/Break available in the steam input, the functionality to pause and issue orders is lost.

I've found that while strategy games are playable with steam deck controls, singleplayer modes in certain strategy games would be way more playable with the Pause/Break key. I don't know why this particular function cant be remapped in games but if it'd be possible to add it to Keyboard & Mouse emulation, it would be awesome! There are some work arounds but they require quite a bit of work.

[Mominjo]

I've pasted below an example of the current way to do this (this was not posted by me) :

"In gaming mode:

Set the controller layout you want to add the Pause key to as current. Map and Rename the button you want to use for pause as the escape key and "findme" respectively.

Do not export to save, instead go to the gear icon and look at Layout Details. Look at the URL which should look like this:

`autosave:///home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steam Controller Configs/<userid>/config/<gameid>/controller_neptune.vdf`

Exit out of the menu and the game, and switch to Desktop Mode.

Open up the Konsole, and find the .vdf file named `controller_neptune.vdf` in the path URL from the layout details.

Open the file in Vim (or a text editor) and search for "findme". You will find an object that looks like this:

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`"bindings { "binding" "key_press ESACAPE,findme" }`

Change `ESCAPE` to `BREAK` and rename `findme` to `Pause` (or whatever you want to name it).

Save the file, and go back to gaming mode. Go to the game, look at the current layout, and you will see that you now have a button assigned to the Break key.

Export this layout and save as a personal layout"