Option to exit Steam instead of minimizing to tray

[LinsaFTW]

It would be nice for some people (Like me) to be able to exit steam entirely instead of minimizing to tray when you press the X button on the window.

In my case i don't play most of the time so i don't want it running while i don't want to play any steam games and i sometimes forget to press the exit button in the tray icon.

[Gwarsbane]

No real need for this. If you don't want it running while you are not interested in playing then just right click on the steam icon and exit.

Heck you can do it for the item on the taskbar and the one over in the corner.

[Radene]

Steam sucks like Skype that way.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Radene:

Steam sucks like Skype that way.

Both services can run perfectly fine without having a window open.
People need to understand that [x] closes the window and not the application.

What's the problem in having one click more either through the menu or the taskbar to exit the program?

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Radene:

Steam sucks like Skype that way.

who still uses Skype when there is Discord!!

[LinsaFTW]

Hi, i want to clarify that i understand that it just closes the window but it would be nice to be able to close steam entirely so i don't have to press the exit button every time i leave steam.

Ill probably have to make it not hidden so i know when its running and remember to close it when i stop using it. Anyways, i will still look forward for this to be implemented.

This won't be a default option and won't hurt any customer experience so there's no reason to be against this idea.

[MadBone12]

Originally posted by Hanomaly:

Originally posted by Radene:

Steam sucks like Skype that way.

who still uses Skype when there is Discord!! :pandastunned:

People who have to use Skype for work, for a start. If you have nothing useful to offer in a conversation, best to shut it or you just look foolish.

@OP: no one has said that they are against it. But Steam doesn't always take on suggestions, even if they are reasonable and popular requests, such as giving people options for bigger fonts in the Steam client. You can always hope, but maybe just resign yourself to it not being implemented, so you can be pleasantly surprised should it ever happen. For now, just get used to closing it through the other options available.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by LinsaFTW:

Hi, i want to clarify that i understand that it just closes the window but it would be nice to be able to close steam entirely so i don't have to press the exit button every time i leave steam.

Ill probably have to make it not hidden so i know when its running and remember to close it when i stop using it. Anyways, i will still look forward for this to be implemented.

This won't be a default option and won't hurt any customer experience so there's no reason to be against this idea.

Seriously its 1 extra click to exit steam the way we've said. 1 extra click will not kill you or your mouse. If this is because steam is starting up when you boot up your system, well stop steam from loading on startup.

Heck I have a mostly nearly 10 year old computer and I leave steam up all the time because it takes like no power to do it. Even before my recent video card upgrade, I didn't even notice Steam running.


I'm not against the idea as long as its optional, but I see no point in Valve wasting their time with it when its literally 1 extra click to close it now. Thats it 1 click.

[LinsaFTW]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by LinsaFTW:

Hi, i want to clarify that i understand that it just closes the window but it would be nice to be able to close steam entirely so i don't have to press the exit button every time i leave steam.

Ill probably have to make it not hidden so i know when its running and remember to close it when i stop using it. Anyways, i will still look forward for this to be implemented.

This won't be a default option and won't hurt any customer experience so there's no reason to be against this idea.

Seriously its 1 extra click to exit steam the way we've said. 1 extra click will not kill you or your mouse. If this is because steam is starting up when you boot up your system, well stop steam from loading on startup.

Heck I have a mostly nearly 10 year old computer and I leave steam up all the time because it takes like no power to do it. Even before my recent video card upgrade, I didn't even notice Steam running.


I'm not against the idea as long as its optional, but I see no point in Valve wasting their time with it when its literally 1 extra click to close it now. Thats it 1 click.

I don't always remember bro... Because i have to work and im not thinking about games or the "king of my applications" "*Steam*" wich needs 2 clicks to close... Most of game launchers have this option.

Its not about power but about notifications, auto-downloads, etc...

[76561198407601200]

Soon we will have suggestion for "can you make it so steam plays my games for me? i an unable to make many clicks myself"

[LinsaFTW]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Soon we will have suggestion for "can you make it so steam plays my games for me? i an unable to make many clicks myself"

Lol how funny.

Just as it seems you want more technical info there's a reason most of the people forgets to right click -> exit steam even if they want to and its because the human brain interprets the close button as a close button because we have been taught like that. I actually just forgot to exit steam until my family started screaming at me because of "Netflix not working" because of Steam auto-downloading, lol. And i cant find a way to disable auto-downloading completelly too and it would be better (atleast for me) to exit it at window close as i don't use it while working.

[Gwarsbane]

I have no idea how you could forget that you can right click on a taskbar item and exit. Its literally been part of windows for as long as I can remember or at least as long as there has been items in the notification area.

I've got a program I still use now and then from 1998 that has this feature for the taskbar. Another program from 2006, 14 years ago, has the exit when right clicking on the icon in the notification area.

Again what you want is rather pointless and a waste of time and money (and yes it takes time and money to do this because programming costs time and money), but as long as its optional ok fine.

Till they ever decide to put it in, get used to closing down steam by the notification icon, its not hard.

[LinsaFTW]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

I have no idea how you could forget that you can right click on a taskbar item and exit. Its literally been part of windows for as long as I can remember or at least as long as there has been items in the notification area.

I've got a program I still use now and then from 1998 that has this feature for the taskbar. Another program from 2006, 14 years ago, has the exit when right clicking on the icon in the notification area.

Again what you want is rather pointless and a waste of time and money (and yes it takes time and money to do this because programming costs time and money), but as long as its optional ok fine.

Till they ever decide to put it in, get used to closing down steam by the notification icon, its not hard.

Its not hard, i am trying to get used to it. I just think that its a simple feature to add and would help the customer to have a better experience with Steam.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by LinsaFTW:

Hi, i want to clarify that i understand that it just closes the window but it would be nice to be able to close steam entirely so i don't have to press the exit button every time i leave steam.

Ill probably have to make it not hidden so i know when its running and remember to close it when i stop using it. Anyways, i will still look forward for this to be implemented.

This won't be a default option and won't hurt any customer experience so there's no reason to be against this idea.

Seriously its 1 extra click to exit steam the way we've said. 1 extra click will not kill you or your mouse.

But it is inaccessible by keyboard.

Well, the alternative via keyboard is
Ctrl+Shift+Esc (to bring up Task Manager)
Ctrl+Tab (optional to switch tab)
up/down (to get to Steam process)
Delete (to kill Steam process)

Fortunately, killing one Steam process will kill all the other Steam processes. (At least if you pick the right one.)

[Gwarsbane]

So what? Lots of things are not accessible by keyboard once you minimize them down to the notification area which is what we are talking about because the OP says they forget that the X doesn't actually exit steam just minimize it to the notification area.

It doesn't actually change anything, you would still have to double click it to get it up so that you could access it with a keyboard, and if you can double click it, you can click and hit exit.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

If you want to "get it back up" after it's minimized to tray, you can just tell your OS to start a new Steam process (e.g. start menu -> Steam shortcut), which because Steam won't run more than one instance of itself at one time will just cause the existing instance to come back up.



OP, I think Discord's solution might actually be a good idea. For Discord, clicking the X will minimize to tray, but hitting Alt+F4 will kill the Discord process entirely.