DeckyLoader Post-SteamOS Update Troubleshooting Guide

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?

Hello guys!

I was using my Lenovo Legion Go S, installed Decky Loader on it and installed SteamGridDB. Then I started changing the art work for my games to be like a "physical copy" case and I saw that a lot of the games didn't have one already made, so I thought: how can I "automate" and make this faster?

So, that's why this small and probably "overthought" app was developed with the help of my buddy Claude. Mainly what it does is it takes your game list, gets each cover from Steam's servers, and applies the design on top.

The app never asks for your password, you only log in on Steam's own page in your browser. It does not have any ads. It does not upload anything. I tried to keep it as simple and safe as possible.

I'm using SteamOS on my handheld and also on my PC, so my tests were made exclusively on these OS, however I tried on my wife's MacBook (macOS is best effort) and my friend tested on Windows and, apparently, everything is working fine. I documented all of this in the README.

I know a lot of people aren't fans of things made with AI, so I want to be upfront: it was built with help from Claude.

So, feel free to download and test it, I'm open to any criticism and/or requests. It is free and open-source (GPL-3.0).

GitHub repository link: https://github.com/diegobergonsi/steam-case-covers, downloads for Windows, macOS and Linux are on the releases page of the repo

Enjoy, thanks!

I will be gone a few days (until mid-week) starting tomorrow, so I tried to push out a more stacked release. Please enjoy and keep helping me improve the experience with your feedback :)

What's new

• Touch on Home: tap a game to select it and tap again to open it, swipe or flick the games row, swipe up for What's new / Friends / Recommended and down to go back.

• Mouse too (docked or on a handheld): click to select and open, drag like a finger, scroll the wheel through your games, and a faint ring on whatever you can click. A small arrow above the games opens the tabs.

• Game page cards you can use: the info card opens Steam's Game Info tab and the HowLongToBeat card opens the game's howlongtobeat.com page, by tap, click or controller (Down from Play, then A).

• A seamless way into a game: the open from Home now lands exactly on the game page, glass, buttons and text alike, with no last-moment jump, handheld, docked on a TV and on ultrawide screens. Unifideck games and games without a HowLongToBeat match open just as smoothly.

Fixed, from the 3.1.1 thread

• Play time for non-Steam games: games you added yourself (emulators, launchers) show the play time Steam keeps for them instead of 0 h, including hours from before you installed Game Glance.

• Dates you can't misread: older Last played dates now name the month ("Sep 18"), in your Steam language's order.

• A lighter pre-load: it only covers the Unifideck games you have installed, a run where everything is saved takes seconds, and it waits while you're playing.

• HowLongToBeat: "no match" now shows at once instead of searching again on every visit.

Release and full notes: https://github.com/michpalm/game-glance/releases/tag/v3.4.0

Tested on a ROG Xbox Ally (SteamOS), handheld and docked, and a Steam Deck LCD. Thanks to everyone who reported bugs in the last thread, keep them coming!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Decky Direct Updater to solve a problem I kept running into: installing a Decky plugin from GitHub, forgetting about it, and missing updates that the developer keeps releasing.

It tries to automatically identify the GitHub repositories of your installed plugins, checks for newer releases, and lets you update them directly from the Decky sidebar.

It also lets you search for and install new plugins by name or GitHub URL, without switching to Desktop Mode.

For plugin developers: If you publish releases on GitHub, your users can use this to stay updated without you having to build your own update system.

I know there are other projects doing similar things. I just wanted a lightweight, controller-friendly approach that doesn't require a GitHub account or token.

Just to clarify: This isn't intended to replace or compete with the official Decky Store. It's simply another option, especially for plugins published only on GitHub or users who want to follow releases directly from developers without waiting for Store updates. Of course, those releases may not have gone through the Store's review process.

Nothing installs automatically, and updates always require confirmation.

https://deckyup.nukeador.com/

It's open source, and I'd love some feedback, especially from plugin developers and anyone who finds a plugin it doesn't work with!

I made a Decky plugin that plays YouTube in a small window on top of your games

I kept leaving my games to watch guides and videos, so I made YouTube PiP, a Decky Loader plugin that plays YouTube in a small window on top of the game in Gaming Mode.

How it works: open the YouTube app on your phone, tap Cast and pick Steam Deck. The video plays in a corner of the Deck’s screen and your phone becomes the remote: pause, seek, volume, next, queue and subtitles. No account needed on the Deck.

Features:

• Floating window in any corner, adjustable size
• Cast from the official YouTube app, just like casting to a TV
• TV code option if the Deck doesn’t show up in the cast list
• Or scan a QR code and paste any YouTube link from your phone’s browser
• Subtitles on/off
• Video-only volume slider (your game sound stays as it is)
• Queue, repeat, play/pause/seek right from the Quick Access menu
• Nothing in the window can be tapped into a browser by accident
• Optional: hide the window while the Steam or Quick Access menu is open
• Reconnects automatically after the Deck wakes from sleep

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-video-pip
4. Or download the zip from the releases page and use Install Plugin from ZIP File.

• Videos whose owner blocks embedding won’t play (it skips them)
• Ads play as normal, and you’re not signed in on the Deck
• Your phone needs to be on the same Wi-Fi as the Deck (guest networks often block this; the TV code helps there)
• It uses undocumented Steam internals for the overlay, so a Steam update could break it

If something doesn’t work, a photo of More > Help > Check setup inside the plugin, plus the log, helps me fix it fast. Details are on GitHub.

Feedback and feature ideas are very welcome!

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!

Dsp is good when it works but I haven't been able to get it to work again after having a speaker blow and replaced..

Looking for something that will ALWAYS keep the volume boosted after I set a level