

You can force steam to start in big picture mode with the -gamepadui argument. And you can always switch between desktop and big picture mode, at least when you have a normal window manager running.
Booting into big picture mode would entail launching gamescope and launching Steam inside that.







Look for a lockfile in its config directory. Just delete it if it’s there. It can be left over when qbittorrent isn’t shut down correctly.