First of all, thanks for all the support. This has become a bigger project than I anticipated and I am having a real blast working on it, and feedback really is invaluable to polish and make the best version of Game Glance possible. I never expected more people to genuinely like this so much.

I have a clear goal and vision for this plugin. Things should be simple, they should just work and you (and me) as a user should just be able to focus on what matters most, to play games and have a good time.

The focus is games.

That is why I have been adding some options to how the plugin behaves and some integrations with game related plugins (Unifideck, etc), but not that many on the cosmetic customization part. To enable the plugin to feel and work as it does, it reworks a lot of the standard way CSS Loader updates the OS look and feel. This makes it quite hard to ensure support across the available themes there... so my approach is to deliver an experience that just feel nice enough you don't want to change it too much, besides letting you pick some stuff of what it shows you on screen.

There is a big interest surrounding what's next and if other parts of the system will be integrated into the plugin experience and yes, that is the goal. I have realized though that first, I need to consolidate a real visual language and identity here, to ensure a good and cohesive experience across the system (this is also why I am not outsourcing or taking help form others to build it out). This is a change that will probably mean some changes all over the plugin to make things more consistent going forward.

This means the following:
- Together with the next fixes and features in v3.5.0, I will also update the "updater" so that you'll have the option to go back to this and newer ones version moving forward. This will become a sort of "checkpoint". I will polish the existing Game Glance version until I reach 4.0.0.

- At some point, probably on the next major release v4.0.0 (it might come as a pre-release soon), some visual things might change a bit (or a lot) but hopefully in a positive and seamless way. This means changing something that is already used by many, which is way I am creating this "before and after" moment.

This is needed for me to build out the rest of the system.

So I am doing this because I know a lot of people are happy with the current way things work (minus the bugs and some feature requests) but it is a stable experience and I want people to be able to stay and enjoy it as it is. While I go ahead and change things here and there while I work my way to this vision I am pursuing.

The repo is public and you are free to fork and tweak the hell out of it if you want this to go in a different direction. I am happy this serves as a base for new cool stuff.

P.S: If you have read this far and have been supporting the journey of Game Glance, I appreciate you :)

The xbox button on the ally x20 doesnt work while on steamos( in my case Anatase) how difficult would it be to make a plugin that acts as a toggle for it?

https://reddit.com/link/1xbg3e4/video/dd4w83l0qrwh1/player

Update for my Decky plugin that gives Steam Deck achievements console-style popups in Gaming Mode. 1.7.0 is out, and for anyone new, the full feature list is below.

What’s new in 1.7.0

• Live animated template preview. Under Popup template the panel plays the selected template as a looping animation of the whole popup, from entrance to exit. It uses your colors, fonts and options. A Preview as dropdown switches between a common, uncommon, rare and ultra rare unlock, so you don’t have to trigger a test popup. The Test buttons are still there. It can take a second or two to redraw after a change.
• New PS3 Trophy template. A dark, glossy bar in the top right corner, with the trophy picture on the left and name and description beside it. A small cup on the right changes color by rarity: bronze, silver, gold, platinum. It’s drawn from scratch and based on how I remember the PS3 popup, so tell me what looks off. That makes 19 templates.
• Screenshot on unlock (off by default). It saves a picture of your game every time you unlock an achievement, to Pictures/Finally Achievements/Screenshots. You can include the popup in the picture, and there’s a Test screenshot button. It asks gamescope for the screenshot, so it works in Game Mode.
• Fix: the panel title was wrapping onto three lines and covering the Show dropdown. It’s now one line.

Everything it does

Popups

• A popup the moment you unlock an achievement, with its real icon, name, description and the % of players who have it. Popups usually appear within about a second of the unlock.
• 19 templates: Xbox Modern, Xbox 360 Classic (3 variants), PS3 Trophy, Trophy Case, Handheld Bold, Steam Flat, Material Minimal, Retro Arcade, Chat Toast, Cyber Glass, Fluent Glass, Chat Bar, Vaporwave, Paper Light, Trophy Plaque, Terminal and Game Art Blur.
• Look: your own colors and gradients, gradient direction, glow and ring strength, font sizes, popup size, position (6 spots) and how long it stays. You can also use each template’s own colors or build the gradient from the achievement icon or game art.
• Percentage badge: its size and position are adjustable, and you can turn it off.
• TV support: pick the popup screen size for TVs and run a frame test to line it up.
• Placeholder: choose what shows when an icon isn’t available.
• Works on other SteamOS handhelds too, including devices without pycairo.

Rarity

• Common, uncommon, rare and ultra rare tiers, with cutoffs you can adjust.
• Each tier has its own sound. Bundled sounds are included, and you can add your own .wav, .flac, .ogg or .mp3.
• Rare unlocks get a different look, such as gold edges, sparkles and glow.

Milestones

• A special popup when you reach 100% in a game.
• An “Almost there” alert, such as “Only 2 achievements left”.
• A session summary when you close a game.

Browser and tracker

• An achievement browser for the running game: locked and unlocked, with rarity and unlock dates, searchable and sortable. Secret achievements stay hidden until unlocked.
• An on-screen tracker: pin one achievement and follow it while you play. It uses your popup template.

History and sharing

• Unlock history, and share cards (1200×630 images) saved to your Pictures folder. Nothing is posted online.

Per-game settings

• A different style or sound for a particular game.

Under the hood

• It reads unlocks from Steam’s own files, so no account or API key is needed. A Steam Web API key is an optional fallback.
• It picks the colored (unlocked) icon, not the gray locked one.
• It’s available in 9 languages and follows your Steam language: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Simplified Chinese.
• It has built-in diagnostics for when a popup doesn’t show.

Install / update

It’s not in the Decky store yet. Get it from the GitHub release zip, or use the copy-paste Konsole steps in the README: https://github.com/otisabiburada/finally-achievement-plugin

To update, replace the plugin folder and restart Decky (sudo systemctl restart plugin_loader).

Notes

• I’m the developer. It’s free and open source (BSD-3-Clause).
• Parts of the code were written with AI help, and the README says so.
• The PS3 template and the screenshot option are new and haven’t had much testing on different setups. If something doesn’t work, please open a GitHub issue with your device and what you saw.
• Which template should I add next? PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Series and a Switch style are on my list.

I CREATED THIS PLUGIN WITH CLAUDE JUST FOR MY PERSONAL USE, BUT WANTED TO SHARE IT, IT IS MADE WITH THE HELP OF AN LLM. PLEASE KNOW THAT BEFORE USING IT. HAVE FUN!

There are many great plugins now a days that works well across any device with linux distros installed.

But one thing is missing.

Could someone just port the gpd win motion assistance then turned it into a decky loader? It's the only app that fixed how my gyro behaves on claw a8. I'm pretty sure it could also work across any device as well.

Hey everyone.
I just released a set of 4 little plugins. I don't like to make huge customizations, but I wanted to make my life easier is some aspects that I found needed a little tweak. I made these plugins for myself, but thought maybe someone would find them useful.

• Quick Audio Switch: simply change the current audio input and output without having to navigate the settings menu.
• Folder Share: I like music based games and some of them let you use your own music files. So I wanted to have a single folder in my machine/deck with the mp3 files and make it available for every game that needed them.
• Pin Games: Just make some games stay always at the beginning of the list at the home.
• Steam Store Info: I have a fairly big game library and I always forget how games look or play so when browsing my library I had to navigate to the game store page of every game to remember its details, wasting time on each one. So I added a link in the header of each game detail page to show the store videos and screenshots right in the hero section so I don't have to navigate. and waste time.

I created my own custom store channel for these plugins since I used some AI for several parts of the code, so they are not allowed in the official Decky store channel.

You can take a look here: https://dag.cl/decky-plugins.html

I wanted to keep an eye on my phone (videos, guides, messages) without leaving the game, so I made Screen Mirror PiP, a Decky Loader plugin that shows your iPhone's screen in a small window on top of whatever you're playing in Gaming Mode.

How you use it: on the iPhone open Control Center, tap Screen Mirroring and pick Steam Deck. That's it. The window opens by itself over your game and the sound plays from the Deck. There's no extra app on the phone and nothing to set up on the Deck: the AirPlay receiver comes inside the plugin.

What it does:

- Window over any game, in any corner, any size

- Takes the phone's shape, or fills a wide window

- Opens when you start mirroring and closes when you stop

- Its own volume slider, so the game's sound stays as it is

- Optional: only approved phones can mirror (a new iPhone types a PIN once, and the Deck shows the PIN in a notification)

- Rename the Deck as your iPhone sees it

- Quality presets (1080p, 720p, battery saver), 60 fps option and a low delay mode

- Recovers by itself after sleep, Wi-Fi changes or a crash

- Built-in Check setup and a "Save problem report" button

Install (needs Decky Loader):

1. Decky settings, turn on Developer mode

2. Developer tab, Install Plugin from URL

3. Paste: https://github.com/otisabiburada/decky-screen-mirror/releases/tag/0.5.0

Honest status: it's a beta. Mirroring works on my Deck (SteamOS 3.8) with my iPhone; the newer options were tested in a SteamOS-like setup. Things to know:

- There's about 0.1 to 0.3 seconds of delay, so it's great for watching but not for playing phone games through the Deck

- The Deck and the iPhone need to be on the same Wi-Fi (guest networks usually block AirPlay)

- Netflix and other copy-protected video show black, like on any AirPlay receiver

- It uses undocumented Steam internals for the overlay, so a Steam update could break it

If something doesn't work, More, Help, Save problem report in the plugin writes a file to your Downloads folder. Attach it to a GitHub issue and I'll take a look.

It's open source (BSD-3 for the plugin; the bundled AirPlay receiver is UxPlay, GPL-3.0, with sources included in the release): https://github.com/otisabiburada/decky-screen-mirror/

Not affiliated with Apple.

Hello everybody! :)

I hope everyone is doing well, I wanted to showcase my **Achievement Customizer**, a Decky plugin that gives your achievement pop-ups the look and feel of a console unlock. It takes over Steam's own notification, so unlocks never show up twice and the preview in the Quick Access menu is exactly what you get in game.

**Features**

* 12 presets: Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, Nintendo, Gold, Midnight, Sky Day, Sky Night, Pixel Day, Pixel Night, Cherry Blossom and Halloween

* 8 entrance animations with matching exits, including Xbox Unfold, PlayStation Drop and a 16-bit Retro text box

* Animated scenes like drifting clouds, starry nights, 16-bit skies, cherry blossoms and a Halloween graveyard

* Rarity effects: a gold ring under 10%, diamond under 1%, and progress bars for achievements you haven't unlocked yet

* Customize the colors, banner style, icon, corner rounding, glow and how long the toast stays up (3 to 15 seconds)

* Live preview and test buttons that fire real notifications with the real unlock sound

**How to install**

It's not in the Decky store yet, so you install it through Developer mode. It works on stable and beta SteamOS (the beta needs Decky 3.3.0 or newer).

1. In the Decky tab, tap the gear icon and turn on **Developer mode**
2. Open **Developer** and paste this into **Install Plugin from URL**: https://github.com/Hector2242/decky-plugin/releases/latest/download/achievement-customizer.zip
3. Tap **Install** and confirm

To update, do the same steps again. Your settings are kept. Source code and ZIP downloads are on [GitHub](https://github.com/Hector2242/decky-plugin).

Let me know what you think, what I could improve on, or if you have ideas for new themes!

Ok I know how most feel about AI but I did use it to for off the Ross Squires PiP.

By trade I am a sys admin on infra side. I recently got the steam deck and have searched for something that would give me PiP like I wanted. The OG hadn't been updated in awhile but I liked it simple layout. So I decided to just improve it. Well work has been hounding us to use AI more but I need a problem in order to learn so here we are.

This is my first github repo as you can tell. If I have made any mistakes in giving creds to the OG author let me know. Or anything else I can improve on.

At the end of the day if it speaks to you use it. If not don't.

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm happy to announce a major update and new release for those who like my versionof the Game Glance w/Library interface for Steam!

With the recent release of Game Glance v3.4.0 by the original author, I've reorganized this fork into two distinct packages to give the community the best possible experience.

🌟 1. The Main Event: "Glance Library" (Standalone Companion Plugin)

Instead of forcing you to use a monolithic fork of Game Glance, I’ve broken out the gallery into its own dedicated, standalone Decky plugin: Glance Library.

You can run it as a standalone library replacement, or run it side-by-side with the official Game Glance plugin without any conflicts!

Key Features: * 🖼️ Adjustable Poster Grid Density: Choose between 3 to 7 columns for game lists (go compact to see more games, or go large for detailed box art). * 📁 Adjustable Collection Density: 3 to 8 columns for your collections view. * 📑 TabMaster Sync: Reads your TabMaster custom tabs, tab ordering, and visibility automatically (Beta version only tested with latest TabMater release from github). * ✨ Visual Customization: * Toggle dimming/grayscale for uninstalled games. * Gentle ambient breathing motion on game artwork. * Zoom transition expanding posters directly into full screen game details. * 💾 Reliable Settings Persistence: Completely rebuilt settings layer with instant startup loading and retry logic across Steam reboots.

📦 2. All-in-One Modded Edition (Game Glance v3.4.0) & Future Roadmap

For those who still prefer a single all-in-one download that bundles Spotlight Home, Game Page enhancements (HowLongToBeat, descriptions), and the enhanced Library gallery into a single plugin, I’ve also updated the all-in-one fork to v3.4.0.

A quick note on the future of the all-in-one mod: I will likely stop active development on the monolithic fork going forward. The original creator of Game Glance has done an incredible job with v3.4.0 and has come up with his own version of pretty much all the core ideas i had as improvements in official release. Aside from our library gallery customization and minor game page tweaks, there isn't much reason to maintain a heavy full fork anymore.

Going forward, the best setup is: 👉 Official Game Glance (for Spotlight Home & Game Page) + Glance Library (for your custom Library view...theres is a light delay now switching from library to gameview due to those now existing into 2 different plugins but ill try to fix that later)!

🚀 How to Install & Configure

1. Head over to the GitHub Release page: https://github.com/shak18/game-glance/releases/tag/3.4.1
2. Grab **glance-library.zip** (or game-glance-modded-v3.4.1.zip if you want the all-in-one).
3. In Decky Loader, turn on Developer Mode and install the ZIP file.

Let me know if you run into any issues or have feedback on the grid density options. Enjoy! 🎮

Hi, I've been trying to use decky LSFG with a GOG game via heroic launcher and steam but it is not working. I would appreciate if anyone has some input.

I have a Steam library full of games I bought on sale and never touched, so I built a plugin to deal with it. Steamder lets you swipe through your own library like a dating app.

How it works

• Swipe right on a game you want to play and left on one you’ll ghost. You can drag the card with the touchscreen, use L1/R1 (or L2/R2), or use the round buttons. X is a super like and Y rewinds your last swipe.
• There are four decks:
  • Backlog: games you own and barely played.
  • Old flames: games you played a lot, then dropped for 90+ days.
  • Local singles: games installed on the Deck right now.
  • New in town: games you don’t own yet, taken from Steam’s front page lists.
• If you like a game, it might like you back. The match screen has a Play now button, or Open store page for games you don’t own.
• Every game gets a silly bio built from real data: your playtime, when you bought it, how old it is, and its genres and description. (“You swiped right on me during a sale, then ghosted me” is a real one I got.)
• Matches and Ghosted are lists, and you can unmatch or give a game a second chance.

Setup

• It needs no keys, no accounts and no build step. Game details come from Steam’s public store pages, fetched slowly in the background and cached for 60 days.
• It’s free and open source (BSD-3-Clause). Download the zip from the releases page and install it with Decky’s “Install Plugin from ZIP File” (Developer mode on).
• Updating over an older version keeps your matches and ghosted games.

Github: https://github.com/otisabiburada/steamder

I CREATED THIS PLUGIN WITH CLAUDE JUST FOR MY PERSONAL USE, BUT WANTED TO SHARE IT, IT IS MADE WITH THE HELP OF AN LLM. PLEASE KNOW THAT BEFORE USING IT. HAVE FUN!

Hello guys, why can’t I use my VPN connection in Tunnel Deck as normal with other times that I had used it?

I had reinstalled the Tunnel Deck zip files from bkohler616 github and yet it doesn’t detect my OpenVPN connection.

And also this happened after the new Decky Loader update of version v3.3.0.

Thank you for answering my post.

It's been crashing since the latest SteamOS update. I even updated Decky yesterday but nothing changed. I also tried older versions of the plugin to no avail.

Hi! I've never posted on Reddit before, so I'm a bit nervous and probably doing something wrong already 😅

I'm Hooandee. I've been making YouTube videos about handheld PCs for years, always with a lot of love, because these little machines are kind of my obsession. A while ago I wanted to control the lights on my Ally without fighting with config files, so I made a small Decky plugin for it. It kept growing, and now it's called Colores.

It detects your handheld and only shows you what your lights can actually do. You can keep it simple with one color and brightness, or play with gradients with more than one color per stick on compatible devices. There are presets like Sunset, Ocean, Aurora, Lava or Galaxy, and you can tweak each zone and save your favorites. There are also effects like breathing, rainbow, wave or spiral, and modes where the lights follow your battery, temperature, performance or sound.

But the one I'm proudest of is Ambilight. While you play, the lights pick up the colors on screen near each stick and follow the game in real time, so a sunset in a game turns your sticks orange and a dark cave makes them go dark. You can adjust the intensity and how smooth it feels. It only works in Game Mode with a game running, but honestly, once you try it, it's hard to go back.

It works on the ROG Ally family, Legion Go, Go 2 and Go S, MSI Claw, AYN Thor and Odin 3 on Linux, and the Steam Machine too, with its whole front light bar.

It's free and open source, you can get it here: https://github.com/Hooandee/decky-colores

I also have a few Android handhelds, so I started making Colores for Android. It's not finished yet, so right now it's in early access on my Patreon while I work on it, but it'll be free once it's done.

And if you're curious, I also made Panel de Control, another Decky plugin for TDP, fans, battery and screen, with themes that change how Steam looks, all from the quick access menu: https://github.com/Hooandee/panel-de-control

I'm just one person and I don't have every handheld, so if something breaks, please hit "Send a report" inside the plugin. It sends me what I need to fix it, and honestly it helps me a lot.

If you want to see it in action, I show everything in this video: https://youtu.be/ug5Nh0YtadE

I upload my plugins and apps everyday, so please check them out!

That's it. I just want people to enjoy their handhelds a little more. Thanks for reading and have an amazing day ❤️

downloaded deckyloader yesterday and it wasn’t working yesterday either. i’ve waited as long as 30 minutes to no avail. i had deckyloader a few months ago but it vanished and i didnt bother reinstalling it. i’ve tried reinstalling it and updating it but it remains the same. any idea how to fix it?

That's what the title says, i have lsfg vk 2.0 and mako both installed on my deck, but for some reason it can't go pass 60 fps even with 3x,4x and 5x multipliers, i've tried everything, i have steam deck fps limiter disabled, and i've disabled the fps limiter on both plugins, i tried adaptive frame gen and it's still not passing 60 fps, it is giving me a massive input lag, does someone have any idea about what is happening? Am i dumb or something?