Big improvements and new features for the Steam Desktop client are now out of Beta!

  • Bri Guy
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    52 years ago

    Some interesting changes to the UI. I’ll have to look more into what else is new tomorrow

  • xNIBx
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    52 years ago

    Pinnable notes with adjusted transparency is pretty cool, especially for people who are on 1 monitor.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    I’ve been on the beta for a while and like it much more than the old design. It also comes with some improvements like the notes feature

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    There does seem to be a lot of complaints over it but I like it so far. It definitely feels less sluggish for me in some areas than it used to.

  • Neon_Carnivore
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    22 years ago

    Wait a sec… was I chosen as a beta test case? Because I’ve had these features for at least a month. I thought they were already available to everyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Probably you are in steam beta program, you can join from steam settings and leave anytime you want

  • @greo
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    22 years ago

    Looks great but I have some scaling issues on a 1440p screen, hope it gets fixed soon

    • @rhokwar
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, same here. Apparently this has been an issue for quite some time, but it seems there has been a bit of progress lately. You can launch steam with a forcedesktopscaling arg to scale the ui like this:

      steam -forcedesktopscaling 1.25

      Some people in the github issue thread have reported issues like crashing and an oversized overlay though. See: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5908