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Jul 6, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 6th

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.

General

Fixed viewing and closing a news event partially blocking mouse and touch input on the window.

Desktop Mode

Added a toggle in notification settings to turn on/off sounds for non-critical notifications.
Fixed taking a screenshot playing two sounds.
Rearranged notifications settings page and made some controls respond to changes in the global settings.
Fixed overlay windows showing in pinned state when overlay is activated for some games (e.g. Warhammer: Vermintide 2).

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Jul 6, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 5th

Added playing a sound when displaying a notification toast in desktop mode
In Big Picture mode, added playing a sound to some notification toasts where it was previously missing
Fixed links not working in account creation and pre-login help dialogs
Fixed windows sometimes not updating appearance when clicking maximize button
Fixed issue where viewing a user's profile was not working in some older games (e.g Left 4 Dead 2)
Fixed issue where the overlay was not responding to mouse input when there was a controller configuration loaded that included virtual menus
Fixed an issue where the "Invite Friend to Game" dialog didn't work while in a Steam group voice chat channel
Fixed minimize/maximize buttons not working for chat windows created minimized

Linux

Add a setting to improve compatibility with window managers that send an unfocus event before every pointer click event, e.g. openbox. This setting can be found in "Settings->Interface->Enable context menu focus compatibility mode". Enabling this setting will fix dropdown menus being unclickable on these window managers.

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Jul 3, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: July 3rd

Fixed some issues where some taller sections in controller summary layout preview screen were cut-off at the bottom when viewed in the in-game overlay
Fixed error message sometimes displayed while showing a notification.

Desktop Mode

Fixed date/time tooltip on events rendering full screen.
Fixed emoticons in chat expanding to the entire window on hover.
Fixed app icons for events in What's New not loading on first click.
Fixed style of low battery notification

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Jun 30, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: June 30th

Fixed a hang when resuming from sleep.

Desktop Mode

Improved responsivity of showing systray menu
Fixed chat window not being raised when clicking a chat notification while docked mode is enabled
Fixed persona name in top bar occasionally displaying incorrectly if it started with #.
Fixed rare crash when displaying some tooltips.
Fixed some web pages being viewable in tabbed browser even if Family View should have restricted that content.
Properly show an error when failing to load existing awards given when showing the award dialog for user generated content, reviews, discussion posts, and comments.

Steam Input

Fix bug where configurations could fail to get deleted
Fix bug where configurations could disappear from the configuration browser after deleting a different configuration

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Jun 29, 2023

Steam Deck Beta Client Update: June 29th

Small organization and clarity changes to notifications settings.
Fixed issue that could cause an error when entering a valid Steam Guard code.
Fixed rare achievement animation not appearing when Steam was not focused or hovered instead of just pausing.

Desktop Mode

Screenshots Manager: Privacy dropdown selector for local screenshots will now remember the last selection.
Screenshots Manager: Clicking the large image in the right panel will now open a larger popup of the screenshot.
Fixed URL bar in popup/overlay browser sometimes being out of date.
Added battery indicator to the desktop overlay.
Fix a case where the overlay could have dpi scaling applied twice.
Fix login window having the wrong dimensions when dpi scaling is enabled.
Fix a case where menus could get clipped if dpi scaling is enabled.
Fix a case where disabling dpi scaling via settings wouldn't have any effect.

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