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MoriTanosuke / HiDPI-Steam-Skin

HiDPI skin for Steam client based on default skin
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Improve Read me to clarify installation #1

Closed huwd closed 8 years ago

huwd commented 9 years ago

Could you add a bit more detail to the read me about how to install these.

On Ubuntu and a 3200x1800 screen I have copied these to ~/.steam/steam/resources/styles and it appears to have made no change?

If you can clarify so I can get it to work I'd be happy to pull request the Read me.

MoriTanosuke commented 9 years ago

Did you select the skin via Settings->Interface?

huwd commented 9 years ago

Delayed response, apologies.

There isn't the opportunity to select that from the dropdown. Mine only holds and another i'd previously installed (air).

To be clear my process was:

cd ~ git clone https://github.com/MoriTanosuke/HiDPI-Steam-Skin.git cd HiDPI-Steam-Skin/resource/styles cp ~/.steam/steam/resource/styles/steam.styles ~/.steam/steam/resource/styles/steam-old.styles mv *.styles ~/.steam/steam/resource/styles/

As a result no joy... could something I've overwritten elsewhere be mucking this up? Will try and find the time to check this out from a livedisk with a fresh steam install to try and pin down any points of clash.

MoriTanosuke commented 9 years ago

From the file skins_readme.txt:

To make a skin, you need to take a copy of resource/styles/steam.styles file and copy it to skins/<your skin name here>/resource/styles/steam.styes. The existance of that file will make Steam put that skin as an option in the settings->interface dialog (Steam will need to be restarted for it to show). From there you can start editing. You can put new files or existing steam files you want to replace under your skins folder. Good luck!

So I think you tried to install the theme into the wrong folder. Try to clone it into ~/.steam/steam/skins/HiDPI-Steam-Skin directly.

I'm not on my linux system at the moment, so I can not check the path. There should already be a skins folder with the file skins_readme.txt in your directories. Maybe search for the file with find ~/.steam -type f -name skins_readme.txt.

MoriTanosuke commented 9 years ago

I updated the README as well. Will check the installation on my linux system later to confirm the steps.

MoriTanosuke commented 8 years ago

I just tested the installation on a fresh Xubuntu installation and enabing the skin works for me.

huwd commented 8 years ago

Great thanks yes, just tested myself and can confirm it works.

Only point that still differs from your readme is that my steam install path was ~/.steam/steam/skins for some reason.

Thanks for clarifying

MoriTanosuke commented 8 years ago

Nice. I'll add your install path to the readme.

I noticed quite a few bugs in the skin, but at least the UI is somewhat useable on HIDPI displays.

Another great skin is Metro, http://www.metroforsteam.com. Maybe give it a try too.

huwd commented 8 years ago

:+1: Will do, thanks for all the work!