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Outside a Steam launch, Steam applies its desktop layout to Steam Input controllers (holding B opens the on-screen keyboard), so while the window has focus the runtime asks a running Steam client for a game layout via steam://forceinputappid and restores it on focus loss and every exit path. Configurable with [controller] steam_input_override and steam_input_app_id.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Steam Input layouts now switch between the app layout when its window is focused and the desktop layout when it loses focus.
  • Configure the Steam Input override and app ID in the runtime settings. The override is enabled by default, and the default app ID is 480.
  • Layout handling is skipped when disabled, when launched through Steam, or when no app window is available. On shutdown, the runtime attempts to restore the desktop layout.

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Walkthrough

The runtime adds configurable Steam Input layout management. It selects app or desktop layouts from window focus events, uses platform-specific Steam URL delivery, and releases layout state during normal and fatal shutdown.

Changes: Steam Input layout management

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Settings and API contract runtime/include/runtime_config.h, runtime/include/steam_input_layout.h, runtime/tests/runtime_config_tests.cpp	Configuration parsing and accessors add the override and app ID settings. The public header declares initialization, event handling, and release functions. Tests cover parsed settings and rejection of a zero app ID.
Platform delivery and focus worker runtime/src/steam_input_layout.cpp, runtime/src/main.cpp	Platform-specific Steam discovery and URL delivery support app and desktop layouts. A worker processes focus-driven requests and shutdown restoration. POSIX transcript-pipe descriptors are marked close-on-exec.
Runtime initialization and cleanup runtime/src/main.cpp, runtime/include/aurora_events.h	The runtime initializes Steam Input when not headless, forwards Aurora events, and releases layout state during normal shutdown and fatal cleanup paths.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AuroraEventLoop
  participant SteamInputLayout
  participant LayoutWorker
  participant SteamClient
  AuroraEventLoop->>SteamInputLayout: Forward focus event
  SteamInputLayout->>LayoutWorker: Update desired layout and wake
  LayoutWorker->>SteamClient: Deliver app or desktop layout URL

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Possibly related PRs

• patchzyy/Wiicompiled#351: Adds headless runtime mode, which PR #380 checks before initializing Steam Input layout management.
• patchzyy/Wiicompiled#372: Addresses the Steam desktop layout mapping controller B to Escape; PR #380 changes layouts based on window focus.

Suggested reviewers: gitez-spaghetti, theofficialgman

Merge Risk: Low · up to 37a0b

Mergeable with owner awareness of narrow restoration failures: a stalled opener or transient delivery failure can leave game bindings selected after focus loss or exit. Starting Steam later can also leave the layout request unsent until focus changes.

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Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: disabling Steam's desktop controller layout while the game has focus.
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Minor · Re-send the focused Steam layout request after Steam becomes… · steam_input_layout.cpp:471

runtime/src/steam_input_layout.cpp:471
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Re-send the focused Steam layout request after Steam becomes available.

The header says that while the game window has focus, a running Steam client is asked to apply the game layout. The worker sends only when desired differs from sent. A failed request still leaves sent set, and only a focus event on the tracked window changes desired. If Steam starts after a failed request while the window keeps focus, and no focus event occurs, no later request is sent. The focused-window request then stays unsent until the next focus change.

If Steam produces a focus change when it starts, the existing focus handling sends the request, and this gap does not occur. The repository does not show whether Steam does this.

Add a bounded availability check that re-sends the pending focused request once Steam is running. Keep the check bounded so it does not become a tight retry loop. The no-retry behavior at line 470 is intentional.

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Review comment at @runtime/src/steam_input_layout.cpp at line 471:
Add a bounded Steam-availability check in the worker path that updates
`state.sent` to `target`, so a focused request that failed before Steam was
running is sent once Steam becomes available, without creating a tight retry
loop. Preserve the existing no-retry behavior for other failures.

Nitpick comments: 1

runtime/tests/runtime_config_tests.cpp: 1

82-86: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Add a true case for steam_input_override.

The new block checks only steam_input_override = false. A parser that always stores false for this key would still pass the block. No test in the changed file parses steam_input_override = true. Add a block that asserts std::optional<bool>{true}.

Suggested test addition

     {
         std::istringstream input("[controller]\nsteam_input_override = false\nsteam_input_app_id = 1234\n");
         const RuntimeUserConfig config = RuntimeConfigFile::ParseConfig(input, "steam.toml");
         if (!Require(config.steamInputOverride == std::optional<bool>{false} &&
                          config.steamInputAppId == std::optional<uint32_t>{1234},
                      "Steam Input settings were not loaded")) return 1;
     }
+    {
+        std::istringstream input("[controller]\nsteam_input_override = true\n");
+        const RuntimeUserConfig config = RuntimeConfigFile::ParseConfig(input, "steam-true.toml");
+        if (!Require(config.steamInputOverride == std::optional<bool>{true},
+                     "Steam Input override true was not loaded")) return 1;
+    }

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Review comment at @runtime/tests/runtime_config_tests.cpp around lines 82 - 86:
Add a separate true-value parsing case alongside the existing false-value case
in the Steam Input configuration tests. Use RuntimeConfigFile::ParseConfig and
assert that RuntimeUserConfig::steamInputOverride equals
std::optional<bool>{true}.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @runtime/src/steam_input_layout.cpp:
- Line 471: Update the focus-loss handling around state.sent = target so a
desktop-layout request that returns Handoff::None is retried a bounded number of
times while the window remains unfocused. Stop retrying after the bound and
preserve the existing behavior for other handoff results.
- Line 388: Update the unbounded helper wait in Deliver so a pending
focus-driven request does not prevent Worker from responding to newer desired
focus state; do not introduce an arbitrary timeout. Before starting a
replacement request, terminate and reap the pending helper to preserve request
ordering, and retain the existing handoff behavior when no newer request
supersedes it.
- Around line 586-600: Update the restore flow in Release() so a failed thread
start is retried until the existing releaseWait deadline, and the restore thread
retries Deliver only when it returns Handoff::None, stopping on Confirmed or
Unconfirmed. Preserve the existing bounded wait, but avoid retrying when Steam
is not running if OpenSteamUrl returns Handoff::None in that case; exit should
return without waiting for the full deadline.

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Minor comments:
Review comments at @runtime/src/steam_input_layout.cpp:
- Line 471: Add a bounded Steam-availability check in the worker path that
updates `state.sent` to `target`, so a focused request that failed before Steam
was running is sent once Steam becomes available, without creating a tight retry
loop. Preserve the existing no-retry behavior for other failures.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @runtime/tests/runtime_config_tests.cpp:
- Around line 82-86: Add a separate true-value parsing case alongside the
existing false-value case in the Steam Input configuration tests. Use
RuntimeConfigFile::ParseConfig and assert that
RuntimeUserConfig::steamInputOverride equals std::optional<bool>{true}.

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@coderabbitai on the follow-up about re-sending the game layout when Steam starts after the window already has focus: leaving this out. It would need a background poll for Steam, which is a new feature beyond this change, and the next focus change applies the layout. Starting Steam normally brings its window forward anyway, which produces that focus change.

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@patchzyy Understood. Detecting Steam startup and re-sending the game layout can stay outside this PR. The next focus change applies the layout.

Would you like a follow-up issue for Steam-start detection?

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