The Steam Controller’s mouse doesn’t work properly on Wayland because of protocol limitations. Valve isn’t planning a fix. The simplest solution is to use an X11 session. Some people try Gamescope or third-party tools, but results vary.

thats terrible terrible news....
especially with so many linux convert'ees this year an especially this MONTH!!

and it seems like a good number of linux distro's are converting to making wayland the default as it gets further developed

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

thats terrible terrible news....
especially with so many linux convert'ees this year an especially this MONTH!!

I'm not sure there are many Steam Controllers left in the wild under regular use these days, so I wouldn't expect the impact of that to be very much, if at all. Also, I would bet that a new Steam controller based on the Steam Deck's controls is probably closer than a lot of us realize.

not a physical controller.. "steam input"... the program steam itself is the problem here

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

not a physical controller.. "steam input"... the program steam itself is the problem here

Hmm. I'm running Bazzite. It has a Wayland session by default. No issues here on neither my laptop nor my desktop. Which distro are you using?

arch with kde plasma desktop environment

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

arch with kde plasma desktop environment

Ah, I see what you're talking about now.
I won't be able to help you actually implement it, but extest[github.com] is supposed to be a decent workaround that effectively converts X11 events into Wayland events.

Valve will continue to work on full Wayland support in "Valve time".

ah.. was looking at that but thought all it did was convert steam sessions to x11 not that it converted x11 effects TO work in wayland

ill try it out now and see how it works

so i tried extest and it did not fix the issue... and now i have the additional problem of not knowing how or if i need to undo actions taking with it

there is also the problem of not being able to click on ANYTHING that isnt in game after launching it and alt tab'ing this seems to happen regardless of whether the controller is active or not

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

now i have the additional problem of not knowing how or if i need to undo actions taking with it

This was part of my original issue with Linux as an OS. It gave me a ton of freedom, and I of course would try things and tinker, without truly knowing what I was doing. Ultimately I would end up breaking something, not knowing how to reverse what I did, and it would end with me needing to just reinstall and start from scratch.

This is why I now use an immutable distro. Everything at the system-level is off limits, so I can't break it. It protects me from myself. Everything else is containerized, so reversing things and removing them is simple.

It's not perfect. If an application I want to run doesn't have an Appimage available or it isn't on Flathub, I have to try and fight with Distrobox or something similar. This environment would probably be frustrating for anyone who actually knows what they are doing, but for me it's the perfect playground where I feel like I have enough freedom to tinker, but not so much that I'll get myself into trouble.

That aside though, this has been the best, smoothest, and most enjoyable operating system experience I've had in over 30 years of computing.

Rolling your own with Arch is amazingly powerful for those who know how to wield it. Everyone else though might be better off with something that has things set up for them and softens the sharp edges a bit.