Steam Client - minimum width is now 1010px why?

[Lunatic]

I'm aware this won't bother many people as most just have their steam client minimized when they're not using it. But since it has a permanent spot on my left screen I of course pinned it to one side so I could use the other half of the screen for other stuff. But the most recent update (friends list and chat upgrade) set the steam client minimum width to 1010px. In other words 50px more than half my 1080p screen size! But why?

I mean look at this: https://imgur.com/a/wuCn4QM
Can you please add this feature again? :)

Thanks!

[1kimon0]

I'm bothered by this change as well.

If anything, they should have changed it so that you can make it as small as you want, like... you know, any normal Windows program.
The designer's narcissistic assumption that we always use it fullscreen needs to stop.

[CZBGR Icepick]

Probably because everything else fits to screen size? I mean, at 1080p, I can set the window to half the screen, and open another app to fit the other side.

However, if I open this post in a new window, I could resize it to be super skinny.

[Profile Name™]

Anyone found a workaround for this? It's been infuriating me for one year now. There is no reason for this set min-width. I would be able to see everything I need to see in a 916px wide Steam client window that I would be able to see in a 1010px wide window, and even if there was something I could not see --- that is what the horizontal scroll bars are for!!!

[Lunatic]

Not really. Tried using it while it was at -50px, but that cuts off the first letter of every game (with icons enabled) which bothered me even more. So eventually it lost its place and is now minimized. A hotkey restores it, moves the cursor to the library search bar and minimizes it again once I hit enter to start a game.
I'd still love an answer on why this was changed at all...

[Profile Name™]

One, they won't answer. Two, they won't have an intelligent reason to offer because they smoke crack. Three, they don't care. And trolls have nothing better to do than say things like "Just use Small Mode", "Just use full screen", "don't use Steam then", "pointless suggestion", "they have better things to do". I'd rather have seen NO update in the last year, than these dozens of piece of s updates that keep making things worse for no reason.

[Tharon]

Valve are doing this from the last summer. They suddendly raised the minimum width from 900px to 1000 px and then to 1010 (wonder why).

Using Steam in a 1360x768 monitor is now a pain... everything is zoomed.

Add this to the list of odd things valve is doing lately

[Tharon]

Originally posted by Lunatic:

Not really. Tried using it while it was at -50px, but that cuts off the first letter of every game (with icons enabled) which bothered me even more. So eventually it lost its place and is now minimized. A hotkey restores it, moves the cursor to the library search bar and minimizes it again once I hit enter to start a game.
I'd still love an answer on why this was changed at all...

Because they wanted to made the screen fit for their massive bloated new UI. Did you check the new DLC page ? This is the answer.

[CZBGR Icepick]

I still have no issue with it here. The minimum is fixed because of the padding and margins embedded in the web version of the site. Nothing is bloated about it. It's more organized.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by Lunatic:

I'm aware this won't bother many people as most just have their steam client minimized when they're not using it. But since it has a permanent spot on my left screen I of course pinned it to one side so I could use the other half of the screen for other stuff. But the most recent update (friends list and chat upgrade) set the steam client minimum width to 1010px. In other words 50px more than half my 1080p screen size! But why?

I mean look at this: https://imgur.com/a/wuCn4QM
Can you please add this feature again? :)

Thanks!

Seems to still be an annoyance, and honestly I'm wondering why they are taking so long to fix it.

The main Steam Window basically overlaps with anything else I am watching on the other half of my screen, or doing, and that's extremely obnoxious. I was able to use Steam fine for many years without this ever being a problem, and having updates break something so basic as allowing us to resize windows is very disappointing.

Hopefully they get around to fixing this sometime. I've been using Steam for more than a decade, and issues like this are unfortunate to see when overall they've added a lot of new features and such over the years.

[CZBGR Icepick]

Originally posted by Echonian:

Seems to still be an annoyance, and honestly I'm wondering why they are taking so long to fix it.

The main Steam Window basically overlaps with anything else I am watching on the other half of my screen, or doing, and that's extremely obnoxious.

It's a fixed size. Not proportional to your screen resolution. You need to have a larger screen resolution to fit the real estate to 50% or below.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Originally posted by CZBGR Icepick:

Originally posted by Echonian:

Seems to still be an annoyance, and honestly I'm wondering why they are taking so long to fix it.

The main Steam Window basically overlaps with anything else I am watching on the other half of my screen, or doing, and that's extremely obnoxious.

It's a fixed size. Not proportional to your screen resolution. You need to have a larger screen resolution to fit the real estate to 50% or below.

I'm well aware that it is a fixed size, that's exactly what the problem is.

When the majority of people still use 1920x1080 displays, making it a fixed resolution that is more half of that width causes an issue for people like me who multi-task with the Steam window open.

It also used to have a minimum size that was small enough that I could still fit it on half of my screen.

There's no technical reason why Valve shouldn't allow us to resize the window to be smaller, it being fixed is precisely the problem. Though if it needs to be fixed, at least fixing it so that the majority of people can use basic features in our operating system like splitting our screen 50/50 would be preferable.

Basically: Valve broke something that worked fine before, and I just want them to fix it. It is noticeable a large portion of the time I'm using Steam, and hasn't been a problem until recently in the last 11 years I've been using Steam.

[Profile Name™]

I'm going to flood the hell out of their Reddit using alt accounts and VPNs until they get tired of it and restore the previous min-width. Previously, before this crap update, the vast majority of pages in the Steam client could be seen in their entirety on a 916px wide client window. If there were pages where you could not see everything, there was a simple solution. It was called a horizontal scroll bar. I rarely ever saw the scroll bar, because like I said most pages didn't need it. But on the pages that had the horizontal scroll bar, the scroll bar did not bother me in the least. I'd rather have a 916px wide client window with horizontal scroll bars than a 1010px wide client with no scrollbars. I don't get why they removed the scroll bars and forced us to have this large size window. I am a computer nerd. I have been one for many decades of my life. I have used countless programs. Not a single one of them could not be resized to 916px (my preferred window size). All except Discord, but if you install Better Discord you can easily add some CSS or a plugin to make the window 916px. So Steam is the only f program where I have this huge f size window.

Go here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/

And spam the crap out of their forums and keep bringing this topic up. Because if you don't, they will just ignore it. Plus if there are only a few threads, you know the no life trolls will just jump on your threads and tell you to just use small mode, or to get used to it, or that the update was necessary to see certain pages, or that they have more important things they should change or fix. But if you make your voice heard and drown those no life trolls out, and create a ton of threads and keep bringing this topic up, we stand a better chance. I want my 916px client window back again. I've been wanting it and asking for it for a year now. Now, I'm raging mad and I'm going to attack and pester them nonstop till I get what I want. I won't give up. They better be prepared because my terrorism will start within a week or two.

[Profile Name™]

Look.

Anytime, I ask Steam to fix something, my thread gets locked for no reason. The moderators of these forums aren't here to help us. They work hand in hand with the no life trolls who tell us to shut up and that our ideas and suggestions and requests are no good. That's why we need to fight harder. We need revenge. We need to be heard.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1744483505460859613/

[CZBGR Icepick]

Originally posted by Echonian:

I'm well aware that it is a fixed size, that's exactly what the problem is.

When the majority of people still use 1920x1080 displays, making it a fixed resolution that is more half of that width causes an issue for people like me who multi-task with the Steam window open.

It also used to have a minimum size that was small enough that I could still fit it on half of my screen.

There's no technical reason why Valve shouldn't allow us to resize the window to be smaller, it being fixed is precisely the problem. Though if it needs to be fixed, at least fixing it so that the majority of people can use basic features in our operating system like splitting our screen 50/50 would be preferable.

Basically: Valve broke something that worked fine before, and I just want them to fix it. It is noticeable a large portion of the time I'm using Steam, and hasn't been a problem until recently in the last 11 years I've been using Steam.

Last I looked on Reddit complaining about the problem, the user had a vast difference due to using a smaller resolution. Yes, maybe more people use 1080p. Yet, the half length of that is 960px. It may be around 50px wider, but the store page itself is a fixed size. You can't exactly wrap around the viewing area to be significantly less in constraint as you can with the browser version (which you may as well use anyway), when you add the size of the window itself with it's UI.

Other solutions I have seen suggested mentioned using different Steam skins to minimize all of that.

[Profile Name™]

You can't change the skin to fix the min-width. I make custom skins. You can delete or change every single skin component... you can make the client window completely empty devoid of anything - no images, text, links, etc. and it will still be a min-width of 1010px on a 1366x768 resolution monitor. The problem is probably in their exe. They purposely removed the horizontal scrollbars and purposely made the program window's min-width of 1010px. But that wasn't necessary. For many, many years, we had smaller windows and everything worked just fine. Because the client had something called a horizontal scroll bar. Not only that, I never heard of a stupid program where the program's min-width is determined by the browser store page width. Stupid f sh if you ask me. I'm going to bother them nonstop till they revert this stupid change.