Steam Screen Resizing and Soft Lockup/Deadlock

[BT-Jaylex]

When opening an app that does not operate in fullscreen at launch (or not at all) Steam crops the video to that program's window, limits the cursor to it and adds a black box if there is transparency of the window or multiple windows of the same program. The biggest problem with this is that the cropped window does not contain the menu or title bar, so there is pretty much no way to close the window and you are stuck if there isn't a way to continue or the program freezes. If you want to get out you have to do it from the host. I lock my programs like this all the time and it is really annoying. I can understand the screen resizing because it makes game launchers look better... but is it really necessary for every program? I also notice that whatever custom window rendering that Steam does can break some non-steam games video if it is launched through Steam, but works fine if streamed outside of Steam.



How I think it should be fixed...

First, screen resizing should always contain the whole window, menu and title bar, if it exists (most game launchers don't even have title frames so those won't be any different). Second, there should be an option on streaming settings and/or app properties to disable screen resizing completely.

[BT-Jaylex]

Actually a better term for what is happening is a deadlock... The streaming window won't close until the program does, but its impossible to close the program until the streaming window closes. The only way to end the deadlock without going to the host PC and opening task manager I see is to power cycle the Link (by unplugging power) and reconnect to get back to Big Picture and press restart computer from the power menu.

[Yellig]

Theoretically, you should be able to open the Big Picture Mode overlay and choose to close the program from there.

[BT-Jaylex]

For windows that do not have a render window the overlay does not work. This pretty much every program or window that causes Steam to resize the screen.