-=Help needed=-

I’m trying to remote into my Deck desktop. I have tried a number of things, searched all day, and I can’t find anything that actually works.

Steam Link does NOT work as advertised. I can stream my PC (Win11) desktop TO my deck with a Fair connection and no issues. But my PC can NOT connect the other way, it always shows Slow connection and steamdeck offline. I’m on a wired home LAN and I’ve tried WiFi as well. I’ve watched “fix your SteamLink connection” videos and read everything but nothing changes it.

AnyDesk was pulled from Flatpak, so every search suggesting that option seems to be null and void. I don’t know if or how any other version of Linux AnyDesk might work, or how. And I can’t find anything other than “It’s on Discover”. Not anymore it isn’t.

KDE Connect doesn’t seem to do much other than let me transfer files. I can mouse click but not move the mouse. I don’t see many options here to get it to do what I need.

I want to remotely navigate the Desktop mode from my Windows PC. It shouldn’t be this hard. Anyone encounter or understand a solution that could explain it in better than one sentence worth? I’m trying to learn but it’s just brutal out there.

#Steamdeck

  • jayandp
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    1 year ago

    It was a bit involved, so beware non-expirienced Linux users, but I found a method that gets DWService running in user mode and it works on SteamDeck. You need to unlock the System partition first, or use something like Rwfus(Untested), just for setup, but you can lock it again and get updates later as nothing important is left after you’re done.

    Once you’ve got it setup it auto starts at boot. Has survived all SteamOS updates for months now. Screen share only works in Desktop mode, since DWService doesn’t support Game mode’s wayland yet, but other tools like the Terminal, File Browser, and Process Monitor work even in Game mode. They also have an Android client now, in addition to their standard Web client.

    DWService is an online service though, not a direct client to client connection, so it’s up to you how much you trust them.

    https://github.com/AG7GN/dwservice#optional-run-the-dwagent-as-a-regular-user-on-linux