How to stop Steam Big Picture opening when the guide button is pressed

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How to stop Steam Big Picture opening when you press the guide button on your XBox Controller

Scenario: You have an XBOX One Controller, or similar, and to turn off the controller you press and hold the guide button. Unfortunately, even though you have turned off guide button focuses steam in Steam's Controller Settings, the button press still opens Big Picture Mode.

Guide

• With your controller on, open Controller Settings: Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings
• Using the controller, highlight Xbox One Controller or similar, navigate to Define Layout and press A on the controller

The next step involves remapping the Guide Button to another button and then reassigning that button back to the original. This will leave the guide button unassigned so that the controller can be turned off without Steam getting involved.

• Navigate to Guide and press A
• Navigate to Primary Action, which is your A button and set it back to A. Guide should now be unassigned.

• Press Y to save and then B to close the controller settings
• Test the Guide button now turns off without opening Big Picture.

For those of you who (like me) end-up here with the intention of burying this mofo for good, those strings are stored in;

%YourSteamDir%\config\config.vdf (probably C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\config\config.vdf)

I'm looking at a way to open the file, remove that string and then re-save it without me having to do anything at all (probably with File.ReadAllLines and File.WriteAllLines), I'll try and keep it device-agnostic so that others can make use of it, too.

I ended-up here looking for a solution and didn't find an easy one, so I have made a Powershell script to remove all references to the Guide button assignment.

It backs-up your current Steam config before opening it and deleting all 'guide:xx' refences, and then saves it (overwrites current config), thus solving the guide button problem once and for all.

Full details on what it is and how it works are on Github, where the code can be see before using - https://github.com/CriticalPoint/Automatically-Disable-Steam-Big-Picture-Mode-Guide-Button

Dropping this here in case it's helpful for someone!

Hope so! 🍻

@CriticalPoint goated 🗿

@CriticalPoint goated 🗿

I must be too old to understand the reference 👴🏻

Check out the most recent updates, I’ve improved the script and working on a fully automated set up tool (help needed if anyone knows PS/XML?).

What I’ve managed to put together is easy, device agnostic, simple, and self-managing; what every PC/Steam/Controller gamer wants. Shame Valve doesn’t see that!

ayo, this guide is a big W. the new interface hides the key binding under the test screen so check there if you don't see it and easy unbind the logo key (I was sick of SBP opening when I was turning my pads off) 11/10 flawless (y)

Unfortunately these methods don't work if you still want to utilized Steam Guide Chord Configs.