Frametop / frametop

# Frametop
Frametop is a desktop for the Steam Frame that runs on the headset itself, with no PC. Put several monitors around you, pull app windows out to float on their own, and point with a mouse, or with your eyes.
- **Screens that are real monitors.** Each KDE Plasma screen has its own resolution and shape: an ultrawide in front, portrait screens beside it. Move, resize, curve, and roll them, or pin one to your wrist or your head. They come back to your layout when the desktop starts.
- **Windows that float on their own.** Take any app window off the screens into a panel of its own with Meta+Shift+F, its title bar button, or Launch as Standalone. It stays part of the desktop, so drag and drop and the clipboard still work between floating windows and the screens.
- **Profiles.** Save where your screens are, which ones show, and which apps are open where. Switch to a profile from Display Settings, a key, or its launcher entry, or start the desktop in one.
- **One mouse for all of SteamVR.** A Bluetooth mouse drives a small dot anchored in the room. It works the screens, the dashboard, Steam, and overlays, and hands the laser back when you pick up a controller.
- **Look and click (experimental).** In gaze mode the pointer goes where you look. Meta+J and Meta+K, or the mouse buttons, click and fine-tune, and each correction teaches the tracker. Calibration runs in the headset.
- **Made for long sessions.** The displays turn off when the headset isn't used, even on a stand that makes it seem worn. It stays awake on the charger, and you can reach the desktop remotely over VNC.
Two settings apps come with it: Frametop Display Settings for the screens, profiles, and power, and Frametop Input Settings for mice, keyboards, gaze, and button mappings. Optional fixes let Bluetooth LE mice and keyboards like the Swiftpoint Z3 reconnect after they sleep. Install it with one command: see Install on the headset.
Frametop is an independent project, not made by or affiliated with Valve.
Frametop lives at Frametop/frametop: code, releases, issues, and pull requests. It moved there from DeeJanuz/frametop on 2026-10-09; the old links and clones still work.
Join the Frametop Discord for questions, ideas, and help with your setup.
## Install on the headset
> **SteamOS 0.4:** SteamOS 0.4 moved the eye tracker's data that gaze mode reads. This version of Frametop reads both SteamOS 0.3's and 0.4's, and it's tested on 0.4.5. Run `scripts/doctor.sh` after the update: it says whether the eye tracker's layout is one Frametop knows. It also says whether the update deleted the Bluetooth fixes or our eye tracker's frame grabber, which happens when they were installed by Frametop 0.3.0-exp.3 or older. Reinstall what it names (`setup/bluetooth/install.sh install`, `gaze/tracker/install.sh`). From then on they're kept through updates.
You need a Steam Frame with an internet connection, a keyboard (Bluetooth, or the on-screen one), and about 3 GB of free space.
1. In the launche