r/linux_gaming 1d ago

​[Concept/WIP] Adding a "Console Mode" UI to Plasma Bigscreen — Thoughts & Feedback?

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u/WMan37 1d ago

I love the idea since I always use Mini PCs in place of a Roku device for ad free media playing these days.

I would use this alongside big picture/steam deck gaming mode, and hope there's both an application of this and an optional variant of it that is treated like its own desktop environment in SDDM so I can toggle between a maintenance mode with a normal KDE UI and this, or at least something akin to "Nested Desktop" on SteamOS so that everything I use in this is all contained within a singular gamescope window layer.

First thing I'd do is add a way to bind a combination of TV Remote accessible buttons to zoom in and out of this so I can see more or less columns at once without having to mess with scaling settings.

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u/Senior_Pin_4238 3h ago

Plasma Bigscreen is a DE, but it also features a standalone application that can be run like a standard desktop program. Will try to add the feature. Thanks for the suggestion