leoooorocha/machine-ready-tv

Machine Ready TV is a visual theme pack for Steam's Big Picture mode, the full-screen interface Steam uses when you connect a PC to a TV or play on a Steam Deck. The goal is to make the interface feel more like a traditional game console home screen, with a cleaner and more polished look than the default Steam design. The themes work through a tool called CSS Loader, which is a community plugin that runs on modified Steam Deck setups and lets you apply custom visual styles to the Steam interface without touching Steam's own files directly. Machine Ready TV provides customized versions of three existing themes (Clean Gameview, Colored Toggles, and Round) that have been adjusted to work well together as a set. Two ready-made preset profiles are included. The Optimized preset is intended for standard LCD or OLED screens used at normal brightness, and the OLED preset uses a darker color palette that takes advantage of the black levels that OLED panels can produce. The README includes screenshots of both presets showing the home screen, game view, menus, settings, and the on-screen keyboard. Installing it requires downloading the ZIP file from GitHub, extracting the theme files, and placing them in the homebrew themes folder on your Steam Deck or modified Steam installation. A list of additional optional themes from the CSS Loader Theme Store is also recommended to fill out the full look, covering things like hiding store tabs, adjusting blur effects, and changing game cover animations. After installing, you select and apply the profile inside the CSS Loader settings.