News Valve launches revamped Steam chat system

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    That ain't a Windows thing: tiling window managers have been around for ages in Linux land. (Where do you think Microsoft stole the idea^W^W^Wgot its inspiration from?) It's just that 50:50, or more usually a 70:30 vertical split between a text editor and a terminal on the left then a 50:50 horizontal split between those and a browser window on the right, is how I work. But Steam says no.
    This is what happens when you buy you devs two or three high-resolution monitors and don't think about what your users have. Last I checked, 1920x1080 was still the most common resolution on the Steam Hardware Survey.
     
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    Gareth Halfacree, 26 Jul 2018
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  2. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    For the love of god how do I stop the new chat automatcally starting!!!!

    I always had steam start on bootup but it would sit nicely in my icon tray but now I have this chat crapbox appear every frickin boot.

    I can't find anywhere to switch it off besides stopping steam start.

    Edit: it is feasible it's in front of my face but i just can't see it
     
    adidan, 27 Jul 2018
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  3. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    Unfortunately no option for that in steam yet, but there is a way to stop it:

    * Open your Registry Editor (Windows > Run > RegEdit)
    * Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    * Find the entry named Steam and add the parameters:

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -silent -nochatui -nofriendsui
     
    Anfield, 27 Jul 2018
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  4. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Thanks, glad to know i'm not going barmy.

    Yeah I heard there was a reg tweak thanks for that. Unless they sort it I may just do that.
     
    adidan, 27 Jul 2018
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  5. Jito463

    Jito463 What's a Dremel?

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    As one who doesn't use chat in Steam, I'm glad to hear about the reg key. I'll have to apply that when I get home.
     
    Jito463, 31 Jul 2018
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