SteamVR Dashboard keyboard doesn't show

[Husk Henriksson]

Everytime when I go onto vr and open up the dashboard, for some reason the keyboard doesn't show up when I click it. Does anyone have this issue or is it just me?

[BOLL]

I was using it multiple times yesterday no issue, I'm on SteamVR beta though.

[Husk Henriksson]

Originally posted by BOLL:

I was using it multiple times yesterday no issue, I'm on SteamVR beta though.

I'm not on any beta versions

[BOLL]

You can try switching to beta and see if it makes a difference though.

[Kezix]

My entire Steam VR desktop was missing and when I would click the keyboard icon, the dashboard would completely disappear as well as my controllers. I would have to restart Steam VR to play games.

I really found this problem frustrating and it is now fixed. I did everything steam support suggested, but none of that fixed the problem. I removed all kinds of programs that they said may be conflicting and did virus scans while rebooting after trying to change almost anything.

Without any of that working, I decided I needed to find a way to reinstall Steam without having to download all my games again. I did this by deleting all of the files in my Steam directory besides Steam.exe and my steamapps folder so I wouldn't have to redownload my games. At first, my VR wouldn't work. I think my base stations were stuck in standby mode since I had that enabled previously, so then I unplugged and replugged them back in.

After this I decided to go straight into room setup, which I ended up using room scale VR setup for the first time. I normally do standing only. I am guessing that what fixed it was reinstalling steam, but I wanted to provide all these details just in case.

Hopefully some of this information might help to provide a way for a fix that prevents this type of problem from happening again. Thankfully, reinstalling Steam the way I did was rather painless, but going through and trying everything else to fix it was not.

Thank you so much for your help! Have a great day!