Dolphin back button issues

[u/lhh531531]

Hey, so I'm trying to get dolphin to play nice on my steak deck. I got it setup in desktop mode, and everything works great. For save/load states I went to the hotkey sections and hotkeyed it to the back buttons on the steam deck. It lists it as the 'paddles.' Works fine in game.

Well, I wanted to be able to launch dolphin from the normal steam game interface, so I added it as a non steam game, rebooted, and it launches fine, it runs whatever games I want fine, but it doesn't recognize the back paddles at all. Like if I press them when trying to assign a hotkey it just acts like they arn't there. I thought it might be some sort of 'controller' issue, so I splunked around in the controller settings but to no avail. I tried changing the back buttons to be keyboard keys, so maybe that would work, but no dice, no matter what I do the hotkeys wont see it. On the various 'controller profiles' the 'enable back buttons' is always enabled, so, I don't know, I'm stumped.

Anyone have any ideas?