v4.6.2.0: Eight Times the Paw, Yours to Size, Then Minds the Little Things, Part Two

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.6.2.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls work behind the scenes: adjust them under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay or on the OmniCharm widget's Overlay tab, and the screen stays just as it was.

🔧 Improvements (v4.6.1.0)

• Administrator App Support (PhantomSigil) runs as a Windows service: the groundwork for capabilities to come.
• “Entering from the Desktop” shows what it depends on: while the Windows “Enter XBOX mode (FSE) on startup” setting is off, a notice appears with an Open Settings link that takes you straight there.
• The Background Material notice is there when you need it: with Phantom Glass or Phantom Glass Deep selected and Windows transparency effects turned off, a notice appears with an Open Settings link that takes you straight there.
• The Volume Mixer works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: like the other built-in Windows tools, it responds to the gamepad as soon as it opens, so you can set each app's volume without a custom profile.
• OmniConsole comes back more reliably after an update: once an update finishes installing, OmniConsole restarts itself and returns on the new version.

✨ New Features (v4.6.0.0)

• Change the cursor size right here: Windows keeps this one in Accessibility settings, and OmniConsole puts it right where you set the cursor speed, anywhere from 100% up to 800%. The OmniCharm widget carries the same slider.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.6.0.0)

• The mouse wheel carries you down the whole page: on the settings pages the wheel scrolls the page wherever the pointer rests, dropdowns included.
• The plain arrow, however you come back: OmniConsole has always set the pointer back to the arrow after a dropdown or a suggestion list, and this version reaches further. Open an external link from the About page, or switch to another program and back, and the arrow is there the moment OmniConsole returns to the front.

⚠️ A WinUI 3 quirk: in the interface framework Windows apps are built on, a dropdown you have clicked keeps the focus, and while the pointer rests on it the wheel reaches that dropdown as well: the page scrolls as usual, and the selected item travels along with it. OmniConsole keeps the wheel on the page alone.

⚠️ A WinUI 3 quirk: opening a dropdown or a suggestion list can leave the busy spinner on the cursor, and it can still be there after you switch to another program and come back. OmniConsole sets the pointer back to the arrow.

✨ New Features (v4.5.0.0)

• Choose how XBOX Mode (FSE) starts from the desktop, and whether to confirm on the way out: under Settings → Advanced → XBOX Mode (FSE) you can have Windows ask you every time, restart for optimized performance, or start right away. The confirmation on your way back to the Windows desktop is yours to keep or leave out as well.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.5.0.0)

• Nekomata Mode and Game Bar’s cursor stay in step: switch Nekomata Mode from OmniConsole or from the OmniCharm widget, and OmniConsole picks up the latest state the next time it starts.
• The same name you see in Windows: Microsoft now styles the brand in all caps, and OmniConsole reads that way throughout. That covers XBOX Mode (FSE), the XBOX app and the XBOX button. Spanish, Russian and Turkish carry the new spelling as well.
• Two Chinese scripts, one look: parentheses, quotation marks and the spacing around them follow one style throughout OmniConsole, so Traditional and Simplified read alike.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.3.0)

• A steadier jump to the mapping editor: pressing Customize gamepad mapping for this app… on the OmniCharm widget takes you to the editor far more consistently, especially on lower-powered consoles.
• OmniConsole reaches the front more reliably when it is called up: from Game Bar’s Home and Library buttons, from entering XBOX Mode, and from the OmniCharm widget.
• Nekomata catches the mouse: with Nekomata Mode on, OmniConsole has Game Bar’s game controller cursor step aside, so the pointer on screen is hers alone.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: newer builds of Windows and Game Bar carry an option that turns Game Bar’s game controller cursor on for you automatically, and that option is turned on by default, which puts it at odds with Nekomata Mode. OmniConsole settles that as it starts.

⚠️ A quirk between Game Bar and Windows: in some games, Game Bar does not appear, even when you press Win+G or the XBOX button on the controller (it does open, but it is invisible, and the gamepad can still reach what is on it). This has been the case across Windows builds. If you see it, report it to Microsoft through the Windows Feedback Hub.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.2.0)

• More of Windows works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: Windows Remote Assistance, the Remote tab of System Properties and the Windows Update standalone installer respond to the gamepad as soon as they open. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen fill the screen however you reach them: OmniConsole has always worked around the two quirks below when it starts a platform, sizing the window to fill the display, and this version reaches further. Switch between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture, or between Playnite's Desktop and Fullscreen mode, and the screen fills just the same. On Big Picture the gamepad goes straight to Steam throughout, and Nekomata Mode steps in for Steam's desktop client alone.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Steam: Big Picture occasionally stops short of full screen, sitting in the middle with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it. It appears only after repeatedly switching between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture inside Steam, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Playnite: inside XBOX Mode, Playnite Fullscreen almost always sits in the middle of the screen with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

• Nekomata's advanced sleep: Nekomata checks on things only when there is reason to, and dozes the rest of the time. Whenever you are not using the gamepad she curls up for a proper nap. Touch the gamepad and her ears go up first, then her eyes, and she is right there beside you before you have finished the motion.
• Gamepad navigation runs smoothly through the OmniConsole interface: every frame carries your latest gamepad input, so the highlight glides along with your thumb.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scro...

v4.6.1.0: Eight Times the Paw, Yours to Size, Then Minds the Little Things

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.6.1.0)

• Administrator App Support (PhantomSigil) runs as a Windows service: the groundwork for capabilities to come.
• “Entering from the Desktop” shows what it depends on: while the Windows “Enter XBOX mode (FSE) on startup” setting is off, a notice appears with an Open Settings link that takes you straight there.
• The Background Material notice is there when you need it: with Phantom Glass or Phantom Glass Deep selected and Windows transparency effects turned off, a notice appears with an Open Settings link that takes you straight there.
• The Volume Mixer works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: like the other built-in Windows tools, it responds to the gamepad as soon as it opens, so you can set each app's volume without a custom profile.
• OmniConsole comes back more reliably after an update: once an update finishes installing, OmniConsole restarts itself and returns on the new version.

✨ New Features (v4.6.0.0)

• Change the cursor size right here: Windows keeps this one in Accessibility settings, and OmniConsole puts it right where you set the cursor speed, anywhere from 100% up to 800%. The OmniCharm widget carries the same slider.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.6.0.0)

• The mouse wheel carries you down the whole page: on the settings pages the wheel scrolls the page wherever the pointer rests, dropdowns included.
• The plain arrow, however you come back: OmniConsole has always set the pointer back to the arrow after a dropdown or a suggestion list, and this version reaches further. Open an external link from the About page, or switch to another program and back, and the arrow is there the moment OmniConsole returns to the front.

⚠️ A WinUI 3 quirk: in the interface framework Windows apps are built on, a dropdown you have clicked keeps the focus, and while the pointer rests on it the wheel reaches that dropdown as well: the page scrolls as usual, and the selected item travels along with it. OmniConsole keeps the wheel on the page alone.

⚠️ A WinUI 3 quirk: opening a dropdown or a suggestion list can leave the busy spinner on the cursor, and it can still be there after you switch to another program and come back. OmniConsole sets the pointer back to the arrow.

✨ New Features (v4.5.0.0)

• Choose how XBOX Mode (FSE) starts from the desktop, and whether to confirm on the way out: under Settings → Advanced → XBOX Mode (FSE) you can have Windows ask you every time, restart for optimized performance, or start right away. The confirmation on your way back to the Windows desktop is yours to keep or leave out as well.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.5.0.0)

• Nekomata Mode and Game Bar’s cursor stay in step: switch Nekomata Mode from OmniConsole or from the OmniCharm widget, and OmniConsole picks up the latest state the next time it starts.
• The same name you see in Windows: Microsoft now styles the brand in all caps, and OmniConsole reads that way throughout. That covers XBOX Mode (FSE), the XBOX app and the XBOX button. Spanish, Russian and Turkish carry the new spelling as well.
• Two Chinese scripts, one look: parentheses, quotation marks and the spacing around them follow one style throughout OmniConsole, so Traditional and Simplified read alike.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.3.0)

• A steadier jump to the mapping editor: pressing Customize gamepad mapping for this app… on the OmniCharm widget takes you to the editor far more consistently, especially on lower-powered consoles.
• OmniConsole reaches the front more reliably when it is called up: from Game Bar’s Home and Library buttons, from entering XBOX Mode, and from the OmniCharm widget.
• Nekomata catches the mouse: with Nekomata Mode on, OmniConsole has Game Bar’s game controller cursor step aside, so the pointer on screen is hers alone.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: newer builds of Windows and Game Bar carry an option that turns Game Bar’s game controller cursor on for you automatically, and that option is turned on by default, which puts it at odds with Nekomata Mode. OmniConsole settles that as it starts.

⚠️ A quirk between Game Bar and Windows: in some games, Game Bar does not appear, even when you press Win+G or the XBOX button on the controller (it does open, but it is invisible, and the gamepad can still reach what is on it). This has been the case across Windows builds. If you see it, report it to Microsoft through the Windows Feedback Hub.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.2.0)

• More of Windows works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: Windows Remote Assistance, the Remote tab of System Properties and the Windows Update standalone installer respond to the gamepad as soon as they open. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen fill the screen however you reach them: OmniConsole has always worked around the two quirks below when it starts a platform, sizing the window to fill the display, and this version reaches further. Switch between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture, or between Playnite's Desktop and Fullscreen mode, and the screen fills just the same. On Big Picture the gamepad goes straight to Steam throughout, and Nekomata Mode steps in for Steam's desktop client alone.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Steam: Big Picture occasionally stops short of full screen, sitting in the middle with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it. It appears only after repeatedly switching between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture inside Steam, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Playnite: inside XBOX Mode, Playnite Fullscreen almost always sits in the middle of the screen with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

• Nekomata's advanced sleep: Nekomata checks on things only when there is reason to, and dozes the rest of the time. Whenever you are not using the gamepad she curls up for a proper nap. Touch the gamepad and her ears go up first, then her eyes, and she is right there beside you before you have finished the motion.
• Gamepad navigation runs smoothly through the OmniConsole interface: every frame carries your latest gamepad input, so the highlight glides along with your thumb.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top r...

v4.6.0.0: Eight Times the Paw, Yours to Size

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

✨ New Features (v4.6.0.0)

• Change the cursor size right here: Windows keeps this one in Accessibility settings, and OmniConsole puts it right where you set the cursor speed, anywhere from 100% up to 800%. The OmniCharm widget carries the same slider.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.6.0.0)

• The mouse wheel carries you down the whole page: on the settings pages the wheel scrolls the page wherever the pointer rests, dropdowns included.
• The plain arrow, however you come back: OmniConsole has always set the pointer back to the arrow after a dropdown or a suggestion list, and this version reaches further. Open an external link from the About page, or switch to another program and back, and the arrow is there the moment OmniConsole returns to the front.

⚠️ A WinUI 3 quirk: in the interface framework Windows apps are built on, a dropdown you have clicked keeps the focus, and while the pointer rests on it the wheel reaches that dropdown as well: the page scrolls as usual, and the selected item travels along with it. OmniConsole keeps the wheel on the page alone.

⚠️ A WinUI 3 quirk: opening a dropdown or a suggestion list can leave the busy spinner on the cursor, and it can still be there after you switch to another program and come back. OmniConsole sets the pointer back to the arrow.

✨ New Features (v4.5.0.0)

• Choose how XBOX Mode (FSE) starts from the desktop, and whether to confirm on the way out: under Settings → Advanced → XBOX Mode (FSE) you can have Windows ask you every time, restart for optimized performance, or start right away. The confirmation on your way back to the Windows desktop is yours to keep or leave out as well.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.5.0.0)

• Nekomata Mode and Game Bar’s cursor stay in step: switch Nekomata Mode from OmniConsole or from the OmniCharm widget, and OmniConsole picks up the latest state the next time it starts.
• The same name you see in Windows: Microsoft now styles the brand in all caps, and OmniConsole reads that way throughout. That covers XBOX Mode (FSE), the XBOX app and the XBOX button. Spanish, Russian and Turkish carry the new spelling as well.
• Two Chinese scripts, one look: parentheses, quotation marks and the spacing around them follow one style throughout OmniConsole, so Traditional and Simplified read alike.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.3.0)

• A steadier jump to the mapping editor: pressing Customize gamepad mapping for this app… on the OmniCharm widget takes you to the editor far more consistently, especially on lower-powered consoles.
• OmniConsole reaches the front more reliably when it is called up: from Game Bar’s Home and Library buttons, from entering XBOX Mode, and from the OmniCharm widget.
• Nekomata catches the mouse: with Nekomata Mode on, OmniConsole has Game Bar’s game controller cursor step aside, so the pointer on screen is hers alone.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: newer builds of Windows and Game Bar carry an option that turns Game Bar’s game controller cursor on for you automatically, and that option is turned on by default, which puts it at odds with Nekomata Mode. OmniConsole settles that as it starts.

⚠️ A quirk between Game Bar and Windows: in some games, Game Bar does not appear, even when you press Win+G or the XBOX button on the controller (it does open, but it is invisible, and the gamepad can still reach what is on it). This has been the case across Windows builds. If you see it, report it to Microsoft through the Windows Feedback Hub.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.2.0)

• More of Windows works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: Windows Remote Assistance, the Remote tab of System Properties and the Windows Update standalone installer respond to the gamepad as soon as they open. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen fill the screen however you reach them: OmniConsole has always worked around the two quirks below when it starts a platform, sizing the window to fill the display, and this version reaches further. Switch between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture, or between Playnite's Desktop and Fullscreen mode, and the screen fills just the same. On Big Picture the gamepad goes straight to Steam throughout, and Nekomata Mode steps in for Steam's desktop client alone.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Steam: Big Picture occasionally stops short of full screen, sitting in the middle with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it. It appears only after repeatedly switching between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture inside Steam, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Playnite: inside XBOX Mode, Playnite Fullscreen almost always sits in the middle of the screen with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

• Nekomata's advanced sleep: Nekomata checks on things only when there is reason to, and dozes the rest of the time. Whenever you are not using the gamepad she curls up for a proper nap. Touch the gamepad and her ears go up first, then her eyes, and she is right there beside you before you have finished the motion.
• Gamepad navigation runs smoothly through the OmniConsole interface: every frame carries your latest gamepad input, so the highlight glides along with your thumb.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top row of the OmniCharm widget, a single press of D-pad Up puts you on the Game Bar widget bar.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen an...

v4.5.0.0: Set It Once, Every Desktop Launch Follows

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

✨ New Features (v4.5.0.0)

• Choose how XBOX Mode (FSE) starts from the desktop, and whether to confirm on the way out: under Settings → Advanced → XBOX Mode (FSE) you can have Windows ask you every time, restart for optimized performance, or start right away. The confirmation on your way back to the Windows desktop is yours to keep or leave out as well.

  

🔧 Improvements (v4.5.0.0)

• Nekomata Mode and Game Bar’s cursor stay in step: switch Nekomata Mode from OmniConsole or from the OmniCharm widget, and OmniConsole picks up the latest state the next time it starts.
• The same name you see in Windows: Microsoft now styles the brand in all caps, and OmniConsole reads that way throughout. That covers XBOX Mode (FSE), the XBOX app and the XBOX button. Spanish, Russian and Turkish carry the new spelling as well.
• Two Chinese scripts, one look: parentheses, quotation marks and the spacing around them follow one style throughout OmniConsole, so Traditional and Simplified read alike.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.3.0)

• A steadier jump to the mapping editor: pressing Customize gamepad mapping for this app… on the OmniCharm widget takes you to the editor far more consistently, especially on lower-powered consoles.
• OmniConsole reaches the front more reliably when it is called up: from Game Bar’s Home and Library buttons, from entering XBOX Mode, and from the OmniCharm widget.
• Nekomata catches the mouse: with Nekomata Mode on, OmniConsole has Game Bar’s game controller cursor step aside, so the pointer on screen is hers alone.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: newer builds of Windows and Game Bar carry an option that turns Game Bar’s game controller cursor on for you automatically, and that option is turned on by default, which puts it at odds with Nekomata Mode. OmniConsole settles that as it starts.

⚠️ A quirk between Game Bar and Windows: in some games, Game Bar does not appear, even when you press Win+G or the XBOX button on the controller (it does open, but it is invisible, and the gamepad can still reach what is on it). This has been the case across Windows builds. If you see it, report it to Microsoft through the Windows Feedback Hub.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.2.0)

• More of Windows works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: Windows Remote Assistance, the Remote tab of System Properties and the Windows Update standalone installer respond to the gamepad as soon as they open. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen fill the screen however you reach them: OmniConsole has always worked around the two quirks below when it starts a platform, sizing the window to fill the display, and this version reaches further. Switch between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture, or between Playnite's Desktop and Fullscreen mode, and the screen fills just the same. On Big Picture the gamepad goes straight to Steam throughout, and Nekomata Mode steps in for Steam's desktop client alone.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Steam: Big Picture occasionally stops short of full screen, sitting in the middle with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it. It appears only after repeatedly switching between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture inside Steam, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

⚠️ A quirk between XBOX Mode and Playnite: inside XBOX Mode, Playnite Fullscreen almost always sits in the middle of the screen with XBOX Mode's black backdrop around it, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

• Nekomata's advanced sleep: Nekomata checks on things only when there is reason to, and dozes the rest of the time. Whenever you are not using the gamepad she curls up for a proper nap. Touch the gamepad and her ears go up first, then her eyes, and she is right there beside you before you have finished the motion.
• Gamepad navigation runs smoothly through the OmniConsole interface: every frame carries your latest gamepad input, so the highlight glides along with your thumb.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top row of the OmniCharm widget, a single press of D-pad Up puts you on the Game Bar widget bar.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose (#7): switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite...

v4.4.3.0: Small Things, Smoothed Out, Part Four

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.3.0)

• A steadier jump to the mapping editor: pressing Customize gamepad mapping for this app… on the OmniCharm widget takes you to the editor far more consistently, especially on lower-powered consoles.
• OmniConsole reaches the front more reliably when it is called up: from Game Bar’s Home and Library buttons, from entering Xbox Mode, and from the OmniCharm widget.
• Nekomata catches the mouse: with Nekomata Mode on, OmniConsole has Game Bar’s game controller cursor step aside, so the pointer on screen is hers alone.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: newer builds of Game Bar carry an option that turns its game controller cursor on for you automatically, and that option is turned on by default, which puts it at odds with Nekomata Mode. OmniConsole settles that as it starts.

⚠️ A quirk between Game Bar and Windows: in some games, Game Bar does not appear, even when you press Win+G or the Xbox button on the controller (it does open, but it is invisible, and the gamepad can still reach what is on it). This has been the case across Windows builds. If you see it, report it to Microsoft through the Windows Feedback Hub.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.2.0)

• More of Windows works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: Windows Remote Assistance, the Remote tab of System Properties and the Windows Update standalone installer respond to the gamepad as soon as they open. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen fill the screen however you reach them: OmniConsole has always worked around the two quirks below when it starts a platform, sizing the window to fill the display, and this version reaches further. Switch between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture, or between Playnite's Desktop and Fullscreen mode, and the screen fills just the same. On Big Picture the gamepad goes straight to Steam throughout, and Nekomata Mode steps in for Steam's desktop client alone.

⚠️ A quirk between Xbox Mode and Steam: Big Picture occasionally stops short of full screen, sitting in the middle with Xbox Mode's black backdrop around it. It appears only after repeatedly switching between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture inside Steam, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

⚠️ A quirk between Xbox Mode and Playnite: inside Xbox Mode, Playnite Fullscreen almost always sits in the middle of the screen with Xbox Mode's black backdrop around it, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

• Nekomata's advanced sleep: Nekomata checks on things only when there is reason to, and dozes the rest of the time. Whenever you are not using the gamepad she curls up for a proper nap. Touch the gamepad and her ears go up first, then her eyes, and she is right there beside you before you have finished the motion.
• Gamepad navigation runs smoothly through the OmniConsole interface: every frame carries your latest gamepad input, so the highlight glides along with your thumb.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top row of the OmniCharm widget, a single press of D-pad Up puts you on the Game Bar widget bar.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose (#7): switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite Desktop platform you set up yourself (add it with one click from the Community button on the user platforms tab).

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.1.0)

• Guided from your first launch: OmniConsole points you to Windows Settings → Gaming → Xbox mode (FSE) to choose it as your Home App, and once you start in Xbox Mode (FSE), if it recognizes that this console can run with the full experience, it asks you to choose Apply to put the remaining settings in place.

✨ New Features (v4.2.0.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls (Pro) (#8, #22): Game Bar comes with Microsoft's own Performance widget for watching your framerate and system usage while you play. Pro adds a separate set of controls, for adjusting RivaTuner Statistics Server's on-screen display from inside OmniConsole. Under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay you can turn the on-screen display on or off, show its framerate statistics, add a shadow behind the text, scale it up, and set a framerate limit. The OmniCharm widget carries the same controls on its Overlay tab, so they are within reach while a game is running. Requires Administrator App Support and RivaTuner Statistics Server.
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v4.4.2.0: Small Things, Smoothed Out, Part Three

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.2.0)

• More of Windows works in Nekomata Mode out of the box: Windows Remote Assistance, the Remote tab of System Properties and the Windows Update standalone installer respond to the gamepad as soon as they open. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Steam Big Picture and Playnite Fullscreen fill the screen however you reach them: OmniConsole has always worked around the two quirks below when it starts a platform, sizing the window to fill the display, and this version reaches further. Switch between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture, or between Playnite's Desktop and Fullscreen mode, and the screen fills just the same. On Big Picture the gamepad goes straight to Steam throughout, and Nekomata Mode steps in for Steam's desktop client alone.

⚠️ A quirk between Xbox Mode and Steam: Big Picture occasionally stops short of full screen, sitting in the middle with Xbox Mode's black backdrop around it. It appears only after repeatedly switching between Steam's desktop client and Big Picture inside Steam, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

⚠️ A quirk between Xbox Mode and Playnite: inside Xbox Mode, Playnite Fullscreen almost always sits in the middle of the screen with Xbox Mode's black backdrop around it, and it takes OmniConsole to fill the display.

• Nekomata's advanced sleep: Nekomata checks on things only when there is reason to, and dozes the rest of the time. Whenever you are not using the gamepad she curls up for a proper nap. Touch the gamepad and her ears go up first, then her eyes, and she is right there beside you before you have finished the motion.
• Gamepad navigation runs smoothly through the OmniConsole interface: every frame carries your latest gamepad input, so the highlight glides along with your thumb.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top row of the OmniCharm widget, a single press of D-pad Up puts you on the Game Bar widget bar.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose (#7): switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite Desktop platform you set up yourself (add it with one click from the Community button on the user platforms tab).

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.1.0)

• Guided from your first launch: OmniConsole points you to Windows Settings → Gaming → Xbox mode (FSE) to choose it as your Home App, and once you start in Xbox Mode (FSE), if it recognizes that this console can run with the full experience, it asks you to choose Apply to put the remaining settings in place.

✨ New Features (v4.2.0.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls (Pro) (#8, #22): Game Bar comes with Microsoft's own Performance widget for watching your framerate and system usage while you play. Pro adds a separate set of controls, for adjusting RivaTuner Statistics Server's on-screen display from inside OmniConsole. Under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay you can turn the on-screen display on or off, show its framerate statistics, add a shadow behind the text, scale it up, and set a framerate limit. The OmniCharm widget carries the same controls on its Overlay tab, so they are within reach while a game is running. Requires Administrator App Support and RivaTuner Statistics Server.
  
• Nekomata Mode on the ROG Ally family (Pro): these consoles ship with the manufacturer's own gamepad mapping, and Nekomata has always deferred to it. Pro makes that a choice: turn it on under Settings → Advanced, then set Control Mode to Gamepad in Command Center. Everything Nekomata does on a PC she does here too, with the same layouts, the same per-app charms, and the same editor you already know. It starts out off, and asks for confirmation the first time, whether from Settings or from the OmniCharm widget.
• Complete Xbox Mode (FSE) setup: at startup, OmniConsole recognizes when this console can run Xbox Mode (FSE) with the full experience, and offers to apply the settings it needs. Choose Apply, grant administrator approval once, then restart your console and it is done. Handheld consoles are left exactly as they are.

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.0.0)

• One action, one sound: opening the custom layout editor with Edit… beside Controller Layout Preset answers with a single, clean note.
• The focus rests where you left it: opening the Pro page keeps the highlight on t...

v4.4.1.0: Small Things, Smoothed Out, Part Two

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her ever so well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames; everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time. That's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.1.0)

• Back to the widget bar, on OmniCharm’s own tile: leaving the OmniCharm widget upward from its top row brings you to the Game Bar widget bar, with the highlight resting on OmniCharm itself.

⚠️ A Game Bar quirk: at the boundary between the widget bar and a widget, going down into the widget and coming back up to the bar, the way Game Bar handles that direction varies between XInput controllers, so it takes one press on some and two on others.

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top row of the OmniCharm widget, a single press of D-pad Up puts you on the Game Bar widget bar.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose (#7): switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite Desktop platform you set up yourself (add it with one click from the Community button on the user platforms tab).

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.1.0)

• Guided from your first launch: OmniConsole points you to Windows Settings → Gaming → Xbox mode (FSE) to choose it as your Home App, and once you start in Xbox Mode (FSE), if it recognizes that this console can run with the full experience, it asks you to choose Apply to put the remaining settings in place.

✨ New Features (v4.2.0.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls (Pro) (#8, #22): Game Bar comes with Microsoft's own Performance widget for watching your framerate and system usage while you play. Pro adds a separate set of controls, for adjusting RivaTuner Statistics Server's on-screen display from inside OmniConsole. Under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay you can turn the on-screen display on or off, show its framerate statistics, add a shadow behind the text, scale it up, and set a framerate limit. The OmniCharm widget carries the same controls on its Overlay tab, so they are within reach while a game is running. Requires Administrator App Support and RivaTuner Statistics Server.
  
• Nekomata Mode on the ROG Ally family (Pro): these consoles ship with the manufacturer's own gamepad mapping, and Nekomata has always deferred to it. Pro makes that a choice: turn it on under Settings → Advanced, then set Control Mode to Gamepad in Command Center. Everything Nekomata does on a PC she does here too, with the same layouts, the same per-app charms, and the same editor you already know. It starts out off, and asks for confirmation the first time, whether from Settings or from the OmniCharm widget.
• Complete Xbox Mode (FSE) setup: at startup, OmniConsole recognizes when this console can run Xbox Mode (FSE) with the full experience, and offers to apply the settings it needs. Choose Apply, grant administrator approval once, then restart your console and it is done. Handheld consoles are left exactly as they are.

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.0.0)

• One action, one sound: opening the custom layout editor with Edit… beside Controller Layout Preset answers with a single, clean note.
• The focus rests where you left it: opening the Pro page keeps the highlight on the navigation item you came from, in step with every other settings page.
• Every direction leads somewhere: in the Custom Layout editor, pressing down from the title always carries you into the tools below, whether or not Copy from App… is available to you.
• It works in the session you signed in to: once Administrator App Support is installed, PhantomKey and PhantomIgnis come up in the session you are actually using, whether you are sitting at the console or connected over Remote Desktop.
• Component integrity verification: OmniConsole verifies the digital signature and integrity of every component before starting it, loading it, or introducing it into a game, and keeps each file protected from the moment of verification until it is in use.
• Verified access to the performance overlay: the tuning agent identifies each caller before applying any change, so overlay settings respond only to OmniConsole itself.
• Your answer comes first: when something at startup needs your confirmation, OmniConsole waits until you have settled it before taking you into your platform.

✨ New Features (v4.1.0.0)

• OmniConsole Pro: a new Pro page in Settings. OmniConsole is a personal interest project, written and maintained by a solo developer in their own free time, and your support keeps it going. A Pro license is obtained from that page, and activating it unlocks the advanced features below. The page also shows who the license is for along with the licenses on this console.
• Administrator App Support (Pro): gamepad mappings reach apps and games that run as administrator. Install it from Settings → Advanced → Nekomata and approve the administrator prompt, and Nekomata Mode extends to those apps. The OmniCharm widget also opens the mapping editor for an app that runs as administrator.
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v4.4.0.0: Small Things, Smoothed Out

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing, you see. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, and who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her rather well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you, and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames, and everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time, and that's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.4.0.0)

• A faster response when you hold a direction: hold the D-pad or the stick in OmniConsole and the focus keeps stepping at a quicker pace.
• Your last press stays in OmniConsole Settings: say you are reading in a browser and open OmniConsole Settings partway through. The B press that takes you out is received by Settings alone, and does not reach the browser by accident.
• File Explorer arrives with the gamepad ready on Steam Big Picture: Steam Big Picture holds on to gamepad input for about five seconds after File Explorer opens. This release works around that, so the gamepad reaches File Explorer alone from the moment it appears.
• Scrolling and navigation feel even smoother: as you move through the interface or scroll a page with the gamepad, the view keeps up more closely.
• The widget carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (VCLibs).
• One press takes you back to the widget bar: from the top row of the OmniCharm widget, a single press of D-pad Up puts you on the Game Bar widget bar.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: installing or updating it requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose: switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite Desktop platform you set up yourself (add it with one click from the Community button on the user platforms tab).

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.1.0)

• Guided from your first launch: OmniConsole points you to Windows Settings → Gaming → Xbox mode (FSE) to choose it as your Home App, and once you start in Xbox Mode (FSE), if it recognizes that this console can run with the full experience, it asks you to choose Apply to put the remaining settings in place.

✨ New Features (v4.2.0.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls (Pro) (#8, #22): Game Bar comes with Microsoft's own Performance widget for watching your framerate and system usage while you play. Pro adds a separate set of controls, for adjusting RivaTuner Statistics Server's on-screen display from inside OmniConsole. Under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay you can turn the on-screen display on or off, show its framerate statistics, add a shadow behind the text, scale it up, and set a framerate limit. The OmniCharm widget carries the same controls on its Overlay tab, so they are within reach while a game is running. Requires Administrator App Support and RivaTuner Statistics Server.
  
• Nekomata Mode on the ROG Ally family (Pro): these consoles ship with the manufacturer's own gamepad mapping, and Nekomata has always deferred to it. Pro makes that a choice: turn it on under Settings → Advanced, then set Control Mode to Gamepad in Command Center. Everything Nekomata does on a PC she does here too, with the same layouts, the same per-app charms, and the same editor you already know. It starts out off, and asks for confirmation the first time, whether from Settings or from the OmniCharm widget.
• Complete Xbox Mode (FSE) setup: at startup, OmniConsole recognizes when this console can run Xbox Mode (FSE) with the full experience, and offers to apply the settings it needs. Choose Apply, grant administrator approval once, then restart your console and it is done. Handheld consoles are left exactly as they are.

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.0.0)

• One action, one sound: opening the custom layout editor with Edit… beside Controller Layout Preset answers with a single, clean note.
• The focus rests where you left it: opening the Pro page keeps the highlight on the navigation item you came from, in step with every other settings page.
• Every direction leads somewhere: in the Custom Layout editor, pressing down from the title always carries you into the tools below, whether or not Copy from App… is available to you.
• It works in the session you signed in to: once Administrator App Support is installed, PhantomKey and PhantomIgnis come up in the session you are actually using, whether you are sitting at the console or connected over Remote Desktop.
• Component integrity verification: OmniConsole verifies the digital signature and integrity of every component before starting it, loading it, or introducing it into a game, and keeps each file protected from the moment of verification until it is in use.
• Verified access to the performance overlay: the tuning agent identifies each caller before applying any change, so overlay settings respond only to OmniConsole itself.
• Your answer comes first: when something at startup needs your confirmation, OmniConsole waits until you have settled it before taking you into your platform.

✨ New Features (v4.1.0.0)

• OmniConsole Pro: a new Pro page in Settings. OmniConsole is a personal interest project, written and maintained by a solo developer in their own free time, and your support keeps it going. A Pro license is obtained from that page, and activating it unlocks the advanced features below. The page also shows who the license is for along with the licenses on this console.

• Administrator App Support (Pro): gamepad mappings reach apps and games that run as administrator. Install it from Settings → Advanced → Nekomata and approve the administrator prompt, and Nekomata Mode extends to those apps. The OmniCharm widget also opens the mapping editor for an app that runs as administrator.
  

• Custom Controller Layout (Pro): define your own default layout alongside OmniNav and Classic. Choose Custom under Settings → Advanced → Nekomata → Controller Layout Preset, then click Edit… to arrange the controller's inputs. Apps covered by built-in mapping pick it up right away, and every new app profile starts from it, so the bindings you like no long...

v4.3.1.0: Your Files, Within Reach While You Play, And She Brings Her Own

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing, you see. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, and who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her rather well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you, and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames, and everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time, and that's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.1.0)

• The main app carries everything it needs to run: updating requires no system framework package (Windows App Runtime).

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose: switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite Desktop platform you set up yourself (add it with one click from the Community button on the user platforms tab).

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.1.0)

• Guided from your first launch: OmniConsole points you to Windows Settings → Gaming → Xbox mode (FSE) to choose it as your Home App, and once you start in Xbox Mode (FSE), if it recognizes that this console can run with the full experience, it asks you to choose Apply to put the remaining settings in place.

✨ New Features (v4.2.0.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls (Pro) (#8, #22): Game Bar comes with Microsoft's own Performance widget for watching your framerate and system usage while you play. Pro adds a separate set of controls, for adjusting RivaTuner Statistics Server's on-screen display from inside OmniConsole. Under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay you can turn the on-screen display on or off, show its framerate statistics, add a shadow behind the text, scale it up, and set a framerate limit. The OmniCharm widget carries the same controls on its Overlay tab, so they are within reach while a game is running. Requires Administrator App Support and RivaTuner Statistics Server.
  
• Nekomata Mode on the ROG Ally family (Pro): these consoles ship with the manufacturer's own gamepad mapping, and Nekomata has always deferred to it. Pro makes that a choice: turn it on under Settings → Advanced, then set Control Mode to Gamepad in Command Center. Everything Nekomata does on a PC she does here too, with the same layouts, the same per-app charms, and the same editor you already know. It starts out off, and asks for confirmation the first time, whether from Settings or from the OmniCharm widget.
• Complete Xbox Mode (FSE) setup: at startup, OmniConsole recognizes when this console can run Xbox Mode (FSE) with the full experience, and offers to apply the settings it needs. Choose Apply, grant administrator approval once, then restart your console and it is done. Handheld consoles are left exactly as they are.

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.0.0)

• One action, one sound: opening the custom layout editor with Edit… beside Controller Layout Preset answers with a single, clean note.
• The focus rests where you left it: opening the Pro page keeps the highlight on the navigation item you came from, in step with every other settings page.
• Every direction leads somewhere: in the Custom Layout editor, pressing down from the title always carries you into the tools below, whether or not Copy from App… is available to you.
• It works in the session you signed in to: once Administrator App Support is installed, PhantomKey and PhantomIgnis come up in the session you are actually using, whether you are sitting at the console or connected over Remote Desktop.
• Component integrity verification: OmniConsole verifies the digital signature and integrity of every component before starting it, loading it, or introducing it into a game, and keeps each file protected from the moment of verification until it is in use.
• Verified access to the performance overlay: the tuning agent identifies each caller before applying any change, so overlay settings respond only to OmniConsole itself.
• Your answer comes first: when something at startup needs your confirmation, OmniConsole waits until you have settled it before taking you into your platform.

✨ New Features (v4.1.0.0)

• OmniConsole Pro: a new Pro page in Settings. OmniConsole is a personal interest project, written and maintained by a solo developer in their own free time, and your support keeps it going. A Pro license is obtained from that page, and activating it unlocks the advanced features below. The page also shows who the license is for along with the licenses on this console.

• Administrator App Support (Pro): gamepad mappings reach apps and games that run as administrator. Install it from Settings → Advanced → Nekomata and approve the administrator prompt, and Nekomata Mode extends to those apps. The OmniCharm widget also opens the mapping editor for an app that runs as administrator.
  

• Custom Controller Layout (Pro): define your own default layout alongside OmniNav and Classic. Choose Custom under Settings → Advanced → Nekomata → Controller Layout Preset, then click Edit… to arrange the controller's inputs. Apps covered by built-in mapping pick it up right away, and every new app profile starts from it, so the bindings you like no longer have to be copied over one app at a time. The OmniCharm widget can switch to it as well.
  

• Screen keyboards from any button (Pro): Windows brings up a screen keyboard from Game Bar, under Settings → Show keyboard. Pro adds a direct route: assign one to a controller button in the mapping editor and it opens without interrupting what you are doing. Pick the Gamepad keyboard, which you type on with the controller itself, or the classic On-screen keyboard, which you point at with the cursor. The On-screen keyboard also requires Administrator App Support. The Gamepad keyboard closes with the B button, and the On-screen keyboard closes when you press the same button again.
  

🔧 Improvements (v4.1.0.0)

• Gamepad mapping support for EA Desktop: EA Desktop is one of the apps that ship in a versioned fol...

v4.3.0.0: Your Files, Within Reach While You Play

🌐 Official Website — documentation, features overview, and installation guide.
🐱 Teach Nekomata your language — she's all ears, so teach her a new language, or help her say it more naturally.
See the live translation status for the latest.
🕹️ Share your custom platform — export a platform you have set up and open a pull request, so everyone else can add it with a single click.

Writing this software has been my way of raising a tiny living thing, you see. I'm Nekomata's mom! A nekomata, in Japanese folklore, is a cat who's lived long enough for her tail to split in two, and who's said to command fire, and even to make dead things move again. It sounds a little frightening put that way, but I've always felt it suited her rather well: what she does is take the places that wouldn't answer you, and make them answer again. So her colors are those very flames, and everything around her carries a phantom's name. I fed her one line at a time, and that's just how I brought her up to where she is today. She's grown up now, and she goes into people's homes to lend a paw. There's a quiet little Pro corner in the settings, and if you'd ever like to help me keep raising her, that's just what it's there for. I'm rather curious myself about what she'll grow into next~

✨ New Features (v4.3.0.0)

• File Explorer from the widget: the OmniCharm widget carries a File Explorer button that opens straight to This PC, so your files stay within reach while a game is running. It opens the classic File Explorer window, the one with the ribbon along the top, and Nekomata Mode's built-in mapping already covers it, letting you browse and open your files with the gamepad alone.

  

⚠️ A Steam quirk: open File Explorer while Steam Big Picture is on screen and Steam holds on to the gamepad input for about five seconds before letting go. Give it a moment, then browse as usual. It only happens with Steam Big Picture; with any other app on screen, File Explorer is ready to use the moment it opens.

🔧 Improvements (v4.3.0.0)

• The Windows shell stays its own: Prevent Double Input is introduced only into the apps you set it up for, and stays out of Windows' own shell and system components, as well as OmniConsole's.
• The tuning agent is recognized both ways: OmniConsole and the OmniCharm widget confirm the tuning agent's identity before sending it anything, and the agent confirms theirs in turn.
• Every component loads from where it belongs: each one resolves the Windows libraries it needs from the system folder, and reaches for the tools it uses by their full path.
• More of Windows works with the gamepad out of the box: Registry Editor, Disk Cleanup, System Information, Remote Desktop, Windows Mobility Center, device property sheets, Hyper-V and a wide range of other built-in tools and Control Panel dialogs respond to the gamepad as soon as they open, and App Installer joins them. Those that run as Administrator need Administrator App Support, a Pro feature.
• Playnite stays in the mode you choose: switch between Fullscreen and Desktop mode from inside Playnite, and your screen settles into the mode you picked. It holds in both directions, whether you started from the built-in Playnite Fullscreen platform or from a Playnite Desktop platform you set up yourself (add it with one click from the Community button on the user platforms tab).

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.1.0)

• Guided from your first launch: OmniConsole points you to Windows Settings → Gaming → Xbox mode (FSE) to choose it as your Home App, and once you start in Xbox Mode (FSE), if it recognizes that this console can run with the full experience, it asks you to choose Apply to put the remaining settings in place.

✨ New Features (v4.2.0.0)

• Performance Overlay Controls (Pro) (#8, #22): Game Bar comes with Microsoft's own Performance widget for watching your framerate and system usage while you play. Pro adds a separate set of controls, for adjusting RivaTuner Statistics Server's on-screen display from inside OmniConsole. Under Settings → Advanced → Performance Overlay you can turn the on-screen display on or off, show its framerate statistics, add a shadow behind the text, scale it up, and set a framerate limit. The OmniCharm widget carries the same controls on its Overlay tab, so they are within reach while a game is running. Requires Administrator App Support and RivaTuner Statistics Server.
  
• Nekomata Mode on the ROG Ally family (Pro): these consoles ship with the manufacturer's own gamepad mapping, and Nekomata has always deferred to it. Pro makes that a choice: turn it on under Settings → Advanced, then set Control Mode to Gamepad in Command Center. Everything Nekomata does on a PC she does here too, with the same layouts, the same per-app charms, and the same editor you already know. It starts out off, and asks for confirmation the first time, whether from Settings or from the OmniCharm widget.
• Complete Xbox Mode (FSE) setup: at startup, OmniConsole recognizes when this console can run Xbox Mode (FSE) with the full experience, and offers to apply the settings it needs. Choose Apply, grant administrator approval once, then restart your console and it is done. Handheld consoles are left exactly as they are.

🔧 Improvements (v4.2.0.0)

• One action, one sound: opening the custom layout editor with Edit… beside Controller Layout Preset answers with a single, clean note.
• The focus rests where you left it: opening the Pro page keeps the highlight on the navigation item you came from, in step with every other settings page.
• Every direction leads somewhere: in the Custom Layout editor, pressing down from the title always carries you into the tools below, whether or not Copy from App… is available to you.
• It works in the session you signed in to: once Administrator App Support is installed, PhantomKey and PhantomIgnis come up in the session you are actually using, whether you are sitting at the console or connected over Remote Desktop.
• Component integrity verification: OmniConsole verifies the digital signature and integrity of every component before starting it, loading it, or introducing it into a game, and keeps each file protected from the moment of verification until it is in use.
• Verified access to the performance overlay: the tuning agent identifies each caller before applying any change, so overlay settings respond only to OmniConsole itself.
• Your answer comes first: when something at startup needs your confirmation, OmniConsole waits until you have settled it before taking you into your platform.

✨ New Features (v4.1.0.0)

• OmniConsole Pro: a new Pro page in Settings. OmniConsole is a personal interest project, written and maintained by a solo developer in their own free time, and your support keeps it going. A Pro license is obtained from that page, and activating it unlocks the advanced features below. The page also shows who the license is for along with the licenses on this console.

• Administrator App Support (Pro): gamepad mappings reach apps and games that run as administrator. Install it from Settings → Advanced → Nekomata and approve the administrator prompt, and Nekomata Mode extends to those apps. The OmniCharm widget also opens the mapping editor for an app that runs as administrator.
  

• Custom Controller Layout (Pro): define your own default layout alongside OmniNav and Classic. Choose Custom under Settings → Advanced → Nekomata → Controller Layout Preset, then click Edit… to arrange the controller's inputs. Apps covered by built-in mapping pick it up right away, and every new app profile starts from it, so the bindings you like no longer have to be copied over one app at a time. The OmniCharm widget can switch to it as well.
  

• Screen keyboards from any button (Pro): Windows brings up a screen keyboard from Game Bar, under Settings → Show keyboard. Pro adds a direct route: assign one to a controller button in the mapping editor and it opens without interrupting what you are doing. Pick the Gamepad keyboard, which you type on with the controller itself, or the classic On-screen keyboard, which you point at with the cursor. The On-screen keyboard also requires Administrator App Support. The Gamepad keyboard closes with the B button, and the On-screen keyboard closes when you press the same button again.
  

🔧 Improvements (v4.1.0.0)

• Gamepad mapping support for EA Desktop: EA Desktop is one of the apps that ship in a versioned folder. A profile you set up for it now covers every version it updates to, handled the same way as apps such as GitHub Desktop. EA Desktop is also covered by the built-in keyboard-and-mo...