Steam Deck Client Beta Update - 1/19/23

Valve pushed out a new Steam Deck Client update for the beta branch yesterday. This one has a decent amount of fixes for general use, the new Big Picture mode, and Steam Input, including adding icons for VR or KB+M only support to app portraits:

General

• Fixed non-Steam apps becoming unresponsive to gamepad when onscreen keyboard is opened
• Fixed background images on a collection on the app details page not being clipped correctly
• Fixed issue where the Remove Collection dialog was not appearing
• Added icons for VR support or Mouse & KB only support to app portraits

New Big Picture Mode

• Detect focus shifting away from the BPM window faster and reduce instances of navigation going to BPM after starting a game
• Fixed Steam mini window not closing when entering Big Picture Mode
• Fixed problem where setting certain library filters in Big Picture Mode could cause those games to become hidden when switching back to desktop.

Steam Input

• Handle errors better and fix some cases where configs would no longer load
• On larger screens combine the keyboard and numpad tabs of the choose binding screen
• Fixed some cases where some languages could have text overflow in choose binding screen
• Remember the last active tab in the choose binding screen and open to that instead always using the tab w/ the current binding value

You can view the full changelog and discussion over on Steam.

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