How to Disable steam input  without an external controller

Step 1 finding the nonsteam game appid

* Change the Controller options of the game at least once ( I usually just disable and enable back buttons)

* Go to /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/logs/console_log.txt

* Look for a line mentioning your game that looks like this: [2024-04-21 15:00:56] Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 3304069282, Controller 15: /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steam Controller Configs/857822282/config/horizon forbidden west/controller_neptune.vdf

In this case, 3304069282 is the App ID

Step 2 shorten appid

* Open this website https://www.programiz.com/javascript/online-compiler/ then delete everything and paste this “console.log(YourAppId >> 32)” then press run and you should get the new appid

* In this case the appid would be "-990898014"

Step 3 add disable steam input to config file

* Close steam

* Go to /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/userdata/XXXXXXXXX/config/localconfig.vdf

* Add this to the bottom of the file before the last closing brackets:

"apps"
   {
        "YourShortenedAppID"
        {
            "UseSteamControllerConfig"        "0"
            "SteamControllerRumble"        "-1"
            "SteamControllerRumbleIntensity"        "320"
        }
    }

* then save the file and you should now have disabled steam input. It should look like this in the file with the final close brackets:

 "apps"
    {
        "-218182063"
        {
            "UseSteamControllerConfig"        "0"
            "SteamControllerRumble"        "-1"
            "SteamControllerRumbleIntensity"    "320"
        }
    }
}




* If steam is left open it will overwrite the file on close

* If you have already disabled steam input on a game you’re going to need to find the “apps” section and add to it or if you want to add more games you’re going to need to do this.  It should look something like this:

"apps"
    {
        "-218182063"
        {
            "UseSteamControllerConfig"        "0"
            "SteamControllerRumble"        "-1"
            "SteamControllerRumbleIntensity"    "320"
        }
        "-990898014"
        {
            "UseSteamControllerConfig"        "0"
            "SteamControllerRumble"        "-1"
            "SteamControllerRumbleIntensity"        "320"
        }
    }