GALLEON 100 SD: Create Custom Stream Deck Profiles with Icons, Icon Packs, and Smart Profiles

The Elgato Stream Deck ecosystem lets users build highly personalized workflows through custom profiles, enhanced visuals, and automatic context switching. When combined with devices like the CORSAIR GALLEON 100 SD, this ecosystem transforms your keyboard’s Stream Deck keys and LCD into a powerful, context-aware control center that adapts to different applications and tasks.

In this article, we’ll explore how custom profiles work, how to enhance them with custom icons and icon packs, and how to use Smart Profiles to automatically switch layouts based on the active application.

A Stream Deck profile is a saved layout of actions, pages, folders, icons, and settings designed for a specific app, workflow, or task. Rather than manually building your layout each time, profiles let you group your most important actions together in a single, reusable configuration.

Profiles can include:

• Drag-and-drop actions for apps and system controls
• Custom pages and folders to organize workflows
• Personalized button icons and visual identifiers
• Action states and conditional behaviors

Creating your own profile gives you full control over what each Stream Deck key does and how it looks.

The foundation of any custom profile is the intuitive drag-and-drop action workflow in the Stream Deck software. After launching the app:

1. Browse the action library for useful commands, hotkeys, plugins, and system controls.
2. Drag an action onto a key in your on-screen layout.
3. Configure the action details, such as target app commands, hotkeys, or behavior logic.

This simple workflow lets you build fully functional button layouts in minutes, whether you’re setting up a streaming control surface, game shortcuts, or productivity tools.

Visual clarity makes a huge difference when working with Stream Deck profiles, and custom icons help users quickly recognize button functions without second-guessing.

You can customize icons by:

• Using icon packs downloaded from the Elgato Marketplace
• Adding your own images, GIFs, or designs
• Creating icons through Elgato’s Key Creator or third-party art tools

Icon packs provide ready-made visual assets that match specific themes or applications, from minimalist system controls to game-themed and branded collections. After installation, these icons appear in your Stream Deck Icon Library, letting you apply them to any button with just a click. They also support animated formats for dynamic visual feedback. Custom icons make profiles more intuitive and visually cohesive, especially when shared or used across multiple systems.

Profiles don’t have to fit on one screen. You can organize actions into pages and folders to keep related commands grouped logically. For example:

• Streaming layout on page 1
• Editing shortcuts on page 2
• System controls in a folder

Pages and folders make even complex workflows clean and easy to navigate.

Smart Profiles take custom profiles to another level by automatically activating the right layout based on the application you’re using. Once set up, Smart Profiles detect the current foreground app and switch the Stream Deck layout accordingly for you.

For example:

• Opening Discord could trigger your Discord profile
• Focusing on OBS Studio would switch to your streaming controls
• Launching Photoshop activates your creative workflow layout

Smart Profiles streamline your experience and reduce clutter by presenting only the controls relevant to what you’re doing right now. They must be configured within the Stream Deck app and work best when the Stream Deck software is minimized so automatic switching is enabled.

Profiles you create can be imported, exported, or shared with others, making them ideal for collaboration, community sharing, or transferring settings between systems. This allows creators to distribute their optimized layouts to collaborators or across multiple machines without rebuilding profiles from scratch.

Custom profiles empower users to tailor their control surface to their exact needs, whether for gaming, streaming, productivity, or creative workflows. Combined with custom icons and Smart Profiles:

• Profiles become visually intuitive
• Workflows can change automatically with your context
• Your control layout stays clean and relevant
• Complex tasks are simplified into single button presses

For GALLEON 100 SD users, this means the keyboard’s Stream Deck keys and integrated display become more than static buttons. They become dynamic, context-aware controls that evolve with every task and application.

Custom Stream Deck profiles are not just convenient, they are a cornerstone in building a flexible, adaptive, and efficient workspace. With drag-and-drop simplicity, rich iconography, and automatic Smart Profiles, you can create a command surface tailored exactly to how you work and play.