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Game Controller Support in Linux

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If Steam recognizes your controller you should not use QJoyPad also as both will interact with your game.  Close QJoyPad to use the Steam game controller.  If you wish to disable Steam from configuring your game controller and continue to use QJoyPad this is possible however simply disabling the controller within Steam settings is not effective.  How to do this from the command line is discussed below.You have different options to use the controller with games in Steam.  The easiest is QJoyPad.Success in game control achieved with QJoyPad sudo apt install qjoypad=== Steam Controller Family ===Tested with the EasySMX controller designed to work with multiple gaming platforms including XBox and PS3.  When connected it will automatically be recognized by Steam. $ ls -laF /dev/input/by-id|grep -i game lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Dec  7 09:13 usb-HJC_Game_GAME_FOR_WINDOWS___00000000-event-joystick -> ../event14 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  6 Dec  7 09:13 usb-HJC_Game_GAME_FOR_WINDOWS___00000000-joystick -> ../js0Note the two associated devices for the controller: event14 and js0If you do not want Steam to recognize it so you can use QJoyPad then you need to do the following:
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