this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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[–] kadu 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As long as Steam is running, Steam + X should bring the keyboard up.

Alternatively, you can add a shortcut to the taskbar that opens it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes only pressing X works as well in desktop mode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steam+X as people have already said. I just wanted to add that the Steam keyboard is missing a lot of buttons that are very necessary when trying to use command line apps, for example. I installed another keyboard from the Discovery store to solve that issue and that's working much better for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What keyboard is it? This sounds like something I need

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By default with X. But Steam has to be running for that to work. If the controls are in gamepad mode (you can switch by long-pressing the start-button, the one with the three lines) you can use Steam+X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Steam+X should work in both game and desktop mode.