Help Setting up Non-Game Controller Layouts

[meowy o.o]

Is there any sort of way to have second non-game controller layout, or a way to make Steam continue to use a layout even when the "game" doesn't have focus? Steam cannot recognize Java Minecraft, so I cannot get a controller set up for it. And I already have a desktop profile I use for navigating... the desktop...

I've tried everything getting Minecraft to work, but Steam cannot figure it out. It goes through a launcher, and it's a .jar file that's actually running...

[RPG Gamer Man]

Minecraft was never good with controllers. It is mainly a game used with Keyboard and Mouse. I do know that when i used to play it with a xbox 360 controller, it did not work very well. I still consider the game maybe better with a keyboard and mouse.

But to answer your question, there are external programs you can purchase that use non game controller in a game. xpadder for example.

[tintingaroo]

Originally posted by meowy o.o:

Is there any sort of way to have second non-game controller layout

Could add another Action Set to your Desktop Layout, set up the Minecraft controls there, and have a chord or long press etc to switch between the two action sets. Then whenever the desktop layout is active, you can switch between the two sets.
I wrote some stuff but where he wants the action set to be blank you'd populate it with your Minecraft controls:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4133808904488410896/#c4133808904489473838

Originally posted by meowy o.o:

a way to make Steam continue to use a layout even when the "game" doesn't have focus

There's the command steam://forceinputappid/[APPID] e.g. steam://forceinputappid/367520
It will force on that APPID's controller layout and it'd be used in games, at desktop, in BPM.
The Guide Button Chord layout will continue to function as normal.

To reset to auto-switching layouts, run steam://forceinputappid/0

To use them in a batch file:

start steam://forceinputappid/[APPID]

start steam://forceinputappid/0

(It's not clear to me what you've been doing / what stage things are breaking (e.g. you've added the launcher but are finding Steam doesn't track it? Steam tracks the launcher but doesn't track the actual game? You've been trying to add something other than the launcher?) but I've made an assumption and will leave the following, might turn out to be something you already tried ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ...)

If you wanted to try and address the issue via getting MCJava added to Steam, I've seen these posts (I presume you'd be using the new launcher):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/qn2qzq/comment/hwypd6r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/qn2qzq/comment/i3f8sn9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

It looks like the tool UWPHook helps to do what those guys did manually.


For another option, I've seen the suggestion to use the old MC launcher which'll be easier to add to Steam:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/quy1gt/comment/hkt5sx8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

And lastly this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/s6ef30/comment/ht5d1jn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[meowy o.o]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

Could add another Action Set to your Desktop Layout

OMG thank you so much this is SUPER helpful for other stuff I've wanted to do as well! It's literally the perfect solution. I don't even have to click anything on screen to switch.

It's not clear to me what you've been doing / what stage things are breaking

It's modded Minecraft (I've already played vanilla Bedrock to death), and it seems like it has to be launched with cursedforge (there's probably some config stuff I could do to launch it from Steam I guess). I could probably get it to launch properly somehow, I'm sure, but I'll stick to action sets for now.

[tintingaroo]

Got ya