My Steam Deck arrived and I even got a setup for it. My problem rn is that my keyboard has an american layout but I need to type german umlaute sometimes…how do I do that?

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There is no way to change the layout of physical keyboards in the gaming mode. Those settings don’t change anything in the gaming mode and but the gaming mode settings only work for the on screen keyboard.

    You might be able to since gamescope (the compositor that the deck uses in game mode) supports keyboard layouts through XKB environment variables, but I’m not sure where to specify those on the deck (and it might even require write mode),