I’m having some trouble finding an answer for this. While in the gaming mode, just navigating the regular steam ui, the default behavior of the left trackpad acts as a redundant directional pad. I’d like that trackpad to control the screen navigation behavior instead (swipe up/down to scroll vertically, swipe left/right to scroll horizontally).
Is there an easy way to do this?
I swear I recall a “big picture mode” config in steam in the past but can’t seem to find that at all now either, sorry I don’t have an answer for you.
No worries, thanks for looking.
You can configure the controller for each game by pressing steam button and scrolling to controller. You can also get community presets or make your own. Press on configure then button/joistick/trackpad and select action then save and switch to it.
Note: I have decky loader so I’m not sure if it matches your config
I’m not sure you understood me. I want to configure what the trackpad does while not in a game.
For example, when navigating the steam store page I’d like to be able to use the left trackpad to scroll the page by swiping on the trackpad. With the default controls, it will only allow the left trackpad to be used like a d-pad, and the right trackpad appears to do nothing at all.
There doesn’t seem to be any way to customize this behavior. The customizations are either per game (when the game is actually running) or in desktop mode.
If you go into desktop mode, go to steam settings, and go to controller, there’s an option to change non-game controller layouts. I’m not 100% sure you can change game-mode layout there, but it’s definitely the first place I would check.
I looked where you said, and it seems to be the same settings which are available from within ‘game mode.’ I did try making some modifications just in case, but to no avail. Thanks for the suggestion.
