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May 17, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: May 17th

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

Reduced the amount of time the Battery Full icon lingers in the header from 60s to 5s.
Fixed manual proxy settings not applying to the integrated web browser.

Steam Input

Reduced rumble request frequency - the requests over bluetooth may have been causing latency in some gyro over bluetooth setups.

Desktop Mode

Fixed mouse input not working in the Store/Community pages on process startup.
Fixed mouse input not working in the top area of the window when dpi scaling was enabled.

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May 16, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: May 16th

Added minimize and maximize buttons to the standalone tabbed browser
Fixed "View Updated Items" context menu items in the Downloads section for games that have updated Workshop items
Fixed sizing of the language dropdown for EULAs
Fixed issue with selecting multiple screenshots in the new screenshot dialog
Fixed issue where images in game notes would stick around on disk after they had been deleted from the notes themselves.
Fixed issue that resulted in game notes showing with no titles when they were only images.
Fixed issue with a black Library pane when starting Steam in small mode, but then switching to large mode

Linux

Fixed issue preventing locally installed tools from being used as default steam play option

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May 15, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: May 15th

Fixed an issue where the main Steam window would be displayed, instead of minimized, when the computer started.
Fixed an issue where the main Steam window would display a black page and was generally unresponsive, if it was closed after the main window was maximized.
Fixed fullscreen video showing in the containing window rather than fullscreen
Updated Screenshot Manager to support non-Steam games better.
Added support for pasting images into Game Notes.
Hide window resize gripper when in pinned mode.
Fixed issue show "0" when there are no other users to compare your Achievements with.
Fixed Issues with re-triggering the last requested rumble state when changing app focus.
Reduced maximum individual SIAPI rumble requests from 10s down to 1.4 seconds.

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May 12, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: May 12th

Add new notification indicators
Fixed a navigation issue in the Quick Access Menu showing the last section, instead of the Performance section, when selecting the Battery icon in the header

Desktop Mode

Fixed category capsules overflowing into the app details page when the window is very narrow
Updated Controller Summary page so that it scales better at different sizes
Fixed menu bar items not opening on hover when window was not focused.
View All Achievements now shows the new Achievements panel that was previously only available in the in-game overlay
Added new "In Progress" section to the Achievements panel, which also can be sorted.
Made the Achievements panel pinnable and reduced its minimum size in the in-game overlay. Together with the new "In Progress" section, users can use this as a way to keep track of Achievements while in-game.
Remove notifications 48 hours after they were viewed
Add new notification bell in the header for Big Picture Mode (not yet available on Steam Deck)
Fixed notification popups for family sharing and download events not appearing while in game
Changed the text in the Hardware Information and Steam Runtime Information dialogs to be mouse selectable.

Steam Input

Updated Controller Summary page so that it scales better at different sizes
Added mouse position dialog to configurator w/ support for transparency to the game or using your screenshots for position
Fixed a regression w/ exporting configs from recent beta

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May 11, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: May 11th

Fixed Steam overlay background and notifications sometimes not displaying or displaying at the wrong location or size.
Fixed context menus sometimes opening at the wrong size.
Dynamically update the UI's scaling factor when the system scaling setting changes.

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