A minimal TTY "Steam Machine" launcher that runs Steam Big Picture inside gamescope on a chosen monitor, with configurable internal resolution (including 4:3 / 16:10 stretch) and saved per-user settings.

I’m actively looking for testers, especially on hardware different from mine.
Use Discussions for hardware-specific quirks, tuning, and “is this a bug or my setup?” debugging.

Start here: Welcome to "smtty" Discussions

• Steam cannot be running in any other session or smtty will fail.

• Make sure “Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views” is enabled in Steam, or Steam notifications can cover the entire screen with a black image when running under gamescope.

• When running gamescope, clipboard integration with the desktop session is one-way: you can copy from the gamescope session to the desktop, but you cannot copy from the desktop into the gamescope session (no desktop → gamescope paste).
• For Steam messaging, use a browser on your normal desktop session and open:
  https://steamcommunity.com/chat
• For convenience, you can create a dedicated Steam Chat launcher. Example .desktop file (Firefox profile) in my awtarchy repo:
  firefox-steam-chat.desktop

Watch the demonstration video: (already outdated...lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8dZZAY5GDE