• @[email protected]
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    625 months ago

    A related thing that annoys me, if you start Steam manually, it takes ~30 seconds to launch and it will steal your focus multiple times during launch. So annoying!

    • @[email protected]
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      165 months ago

      Yeah, that’s really annoying - it steals focus once upon launching, another time upon loading and another time when the news popup opens.

    • Domi
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      65 months ago

      I had the same issue and you can do this by editing your Steam shortcut and adding -silent to the arguments.

    • voxel
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      steam is not a drm-free platform like GOG or Epic Games (some epic games games have additional drm, but most are completely drm-free and there’s no client-level drm at all like in steam*).
      Most games use the Steam API to check stuff, so Steam client needs to be running.
      (I’m actually kinda ok with steam’s drm btw, it’s not as intrusive as on some other stuff)

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      Or the window popping up when you exit steam from the system tray just to show you “steam stutting down” and a spinning icon for 5 seconds.

    • Nix
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      15 months ago

      Isnt this possible? I do it with blender. Just right click the icon of the game and pin it to your taskbar then click it when you wanna launch the game

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        That depends on if the game uses the steam API for something like drm. Then steam has to launch.

    • Julian
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      15 months ago

      You mean just the UI popping up or steam itself? Because it’s up to individual games if they implement any steam drm, and if so how much.

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    Jfc. Thank you Valve!!! I have long since lost track of how many times I have sworn at Steam stealing focus on startup, usually when I am entering a keyring password or something.

    • voxel
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      95 months ago

      i usually just disable autostsrtup for basically everything that doesn’t need to be running for my system to work or productivity tools (like sharex and powertoys)

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        I am coming at things from a different angle. Both being on linux, and having purposely added steam to start automatically.

        Productivity for me, is having my workspace in the same state I left it – so I can pick up where I left off. That said, I also work in IT and put system and software updates at an equally high priority.

        Having browser, terminal, steam (so it can be running shader cache or updates, if nothing else) are all restored to prior state then allows me to enable various unattended upgrades and even restarts during off hours.

    • @brb
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      Jersey Fried Chicken?

  • @poke
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    I haven’t checked the settings, can I make my friends list the default window again?