Any way to get the steam in-game overlay without having a game or program running from steam?

[xxx148]

I find the overlay very helpful and sometimes try shift-tabbing outside of games on accident. I'm wondering if I can get that to actually work. Like I'm on my desktop and can just shift-tab to get my in-game overlay up.

[TirithRR]

I wonder what happens if you add explorer.exe (Windows main GUI process) as a non Steam game?

[xxx148]

Thanks for the reply. I already thought about that but the problem would be steam showing that your always playing a game.

[xxx148]

I guess it is displayed in the window itself but there may still be a way.

[Marble]

Publicado originalmente por xxx148:

Thanks for the reply. I already thought about that but the problem would be steam showing that your always playing a game.

There would be no way around that other than to use a different application for an overlay (such as Raptr).

Publicado originalmente por TirithRR:

I wonder what happens if you add explorer.exe (Windows main GUI process) as a non Steam game?

More likely you'd need to add dwm.exe which controls the Aero effects. The overlay only hooks to DirectX and OpenGL applications. I still highly doubt this would work, though.

[xxx148]

and it would still show you were playing a game :(

Well thanks for the reply's, if anybody has anything else to add then go ahead.