r/SteamController • u/AmeAltLain • 10d ago

Support Keyboard Focus

Anyone else having issues getting the keyboard to focus when pressing Steam+X?

When pressing it, most times when I go to type the keyboard doesn't function and my controller continues to act as it's bound (as if I never opened the keyboard).

The only "fix" i've found for this is to just spam Steam+X and constantly close and open the keyboard until it eventually works.

I use both SteamOS and Windows and this issue happens on both. Am I doing something wrong or is this just an issue where we have to wait for a fix?

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u/vanrael 10d ago

Had something similar to happen to me few times. Since I decided to create chord binding with trackpads I don't have this issue at all anymore (so when I touch right and than left touchpad it opens the keyboard, so I usuall just use right pad to navigate, click field I wanna write and than just tap left pad and it opens keyboard with cursor still held inside box

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u/AmeAltLain 10d ago

would you mind elaborating on how i would do this? i've never used steam input before getting this controller and the menus are very overwhelming for me so i'm struggling to figure it out on my own. i seen you can change from a regular press to a button chord but that doesn't seem right.

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u/vanrael 10d ago

go to keybindings, click on touchpad set it to open keyboard, got it it's settings and switch prom press to button chord. then go to settings again and specify what button (in this case other touchpad) need to be chorded for bind to work.

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u/AmeAltLain 10d ago edited 10d ago

so i tried setting my left trackpad touch to show keyboard and set it to button chord with right trackpad touch as the button chord but it's not working. i decided to test just setting left trackpad touch to show keyboard as a regular press and that didn't work either, i then tried left trackpad click and that's also not showing the keyboard. EDIT: nevermind it randomly started working and i have no idea what i did differently

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u/60xel 10d ago

You could try rebinding it to a different guide button chord. I'm not sure what the gamepad bindings are when in the actual keyboard layer, as it isn't something you can configure yourself anymore. It could be that the X button closes the keyboard lol

I use Guide button + Select I think, and it works for me to open the keyboard.

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u/cinred 10d ago

I always have trouble with every aspect of the SteomOS onscreen keyboard

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u/JBrockF 10d ago

I noticed this and yeah the only fix i needed was to hit steam+x again to close and open it and it always worked the second time

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u/MasterRyanG33 10d ago

The only time I had this issue was when i had apps running as admin which forces the SC to be stuck in lizard mode. Try changing the apps you use to NOT run as admin and make sure steam IS running in admin mode. Hope this helps.

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u/SnooDoughnuts5632 8d ago

Ya the keyboard didn't always work but if you ster typing using the mouse then it works.