[FIX/Workaround] How to deal with Steam's chat windows closing themselves

[Tsviets]

Hi! So today, after many days having this problem where chat windows close themselves, I've found somewhat of a workaround to avoid this from happening:

1. Head to the little cogwheel on the top right corner of your friends list.
2. In the config menu, navigate to the "Chat" options, and turn on the option first option that says something like "dock chats to friend list" (or something like that, I don't have my client in english, sorry!)
3. There you go!

Please note that the issue seems to only involve creating new windows. When you turn this option on, chat tabs will be open next to your friends list, this avoids creating a new window and does also seem to avoid the force close problem.

Hope this helps you as much as it did to me!

Cheers.

[Saunakissi]

Thanks, hope it works.

[Tsviets]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Saunakissi:

Thanks, hope it works.

Yes! It will work (or at least, it should work for everybody applying this fix)
I have tested it for many days now and hasn't failed once yet, so I can assume this pretty much fixed it.

[duf]

Thanks, gamer!

[Tsviets]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Duf:

Thanks, gamer!

You're welcome

[ممارسة الجنس مع ا]

Thanks ! hope it works.

[Tsviets]

Oprindeligt skrevet af zeke:

Thanks ! hope it works.

Yes, it will, so far so good for me, it should be the same for the rest.

[Saunakissi]

Nope, it's not working.. still doing the closing by itself.

[t0rps]

Does not work

[ممارسة الجنس مع ا]

update to steam client beta , problem solved

[Katzenbach]

Worked out for me. thanks