[Request] Safe mode

[foxt]

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Feature Request Description

Restart Decky without loading any third party plugins, so you can update or remove them

Further Description

If you have an plugin that causes issues & prevents major parts of the Steam UI working, you’ll get an error screen, which lets you restart Steam without Decky loaded at all, but then you can’t remove or update any plugins as well, Decky isn’t loaded, or update Decky itself which is handy, until the problem is with a plugin not Decky itself.

As far as I can tell, Decky provides no escape hatch for users stuck in this situation, other than to pull out their phone, and ugh, join yet another bloody Discord server and ask around and hope somebody is around to help.

It would be ideal to have a way to launch Steam without Decky just enough of Decky loaded so you can manage your installed plugins, but not actually load them and cause these issues.

[andreasbrett]

Oh yes please. The recent Steam Client update from today f*ed up Decky for my Steam Decks and it is annoying to handle this while plugin devs are working on fixes.

[Swayze-Mane]

i am also in need of this feature atm :)

[DraconicNEO]

This is a great idea, I think we definitely need features in Decky like this or #350 to handle misbehaving extensions in order to be able to update them, because the alternative is needing to remove all of them and add them back one by one, which is far from ideal.

[skunkmommy]

i am also in need of this feature atm :)

If you're able to plug in a USB keyboard (anything that has a USB-A port and connects to USB-C shoudl work, like an OTG adapter, or a usb-c hub, or a dock) then you can hold Esc while the deck is booting up and it'll boot straight into desktop mode so you can uninstall deckyloader. i've had to do this before

[DraconicNEO]

i am also in need of this feature atm :)

If you're able to plug in a USB keyboard (anything that has a USB-A port and connects to USB-C shoudl work, like an OTG adapter, or a usb-c hub, or a dock) then you can hold Esc while the deck is booting up and it'll boot straight into desktop mode so you can uninstall deckyloader. i've had to do this before

This is a good workaround but I don't think this is a good alternative or replacement to the feature suggestion. This feature is literally being suggested so people don't have to completely uninstall Decky just to get rid of a single problematic plugin. I mean I'm probably not alone in thinking that Decky should have some guardrails so you don't have to completely uninstall it in case any plugins go awry.