'I'll plug the monitor back in, and the dialogue box will reappear and I'll choose the right option. But the Steam Deck's screen remained screwed up. 'No worries' I thought, 'I'll just unplug the monitor and then plug it in again.' The Steam Deck laughed at me in Linux. It looked awful and was almost impossible to use. What it ended up doing was making the monitor look awful with an ultra-low resolution, and somehow changed the rotation and aspect ratio of the Steam Deck's screen.
I panicked and picked to mirror the screen. When you plug in a monitor, Steam OS pops up a dialogue box asking if you want to mirror the main screen of the Steam Deck on the monitor, or want to extend the display. Would switching to HDMI work?Īfter finally locating a HDMI cable (everything in the office seemed to be using DisplayPort), I connected it all up and. The dock was connected to the monitor via DisplayPort.
While it would be possible to use the keyboard and mouse, and stick with the Steam Deck's 7-inch screen, that wouldn't be an amazing experience.Ī search of the internet didn't give me any hints to what could be wrong, but then I had one of my famous Very Good Ideas. (Image credit: Valve / Future PLC) Blank screen bluesĪfter unplugging and reinserting various cables, the monitor remained resolutely blank. There was an issue, however: the plugged in monitor didn't pick up a signal. Straight away my Asus ROG gaming keyboard and Razer mouse flashed into life, and I was able to use them to control the Steam Deck.
This is usually for plugging in work laptops, but as a man of science, I plugged my Steam Deck into the one on my desk instead. It just so happens that every desk in the office has a USB hub. The good news is that you can plug just about any USB hub into the Steam Deck via its USB-C port, and that allows you to attach various peripherals. Using it to type out complicated commands in the Linux terminal is something I never want to go through again.Īs the bulk of my work is hitting keys to make words that you read with your eyes (the technical term is 'writing'), this just won't do. While the trackpad is fine, the onscreen keyboard in Desktop mode is buggy and awkward (using it in the default mode on the Steam Deck is fine, though). I've used the trackpad and onscreen keyboard on the Steam Deck in desktop mode enough to know that is no way on Earth I'll be using them for writing emails or articles.
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