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coldfix / steam-acolyte

Lightweight Steam Account Switcher
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Acolyte might be obsolete #31

Open coldfix opened 1 year ago

coldfix commented 1 year ago

It looks like the builtin account switcher within steam is now able to remember logins for multiple accounts and change accounts without having to reenter 2FA. That means acolyte's original purpose is now provided by the steam client itself for the most part.

Is there anyone who still needs acolyte, and for what reason?

There is one feature that I wanted to add to acolyte for some time which is not provided by steam itself: starting multiple steam instances in parallel. However, this is not implemented anyway so far.

BOT-Neil commented 1 year ago

well steam only supports upto 5 accounts @coldfix

BOT-Neil commented 1 year ago

also when trying acolyte now it doesn't work trying to login to the 6th account, i have to type in my details again. Could you fix it to work with the new switcher too?

coldfix commented 1 year ago

Not sure. Steam seemed to have changed a lot about the login process. I don't think I can spare the time to investigate currently.

BOT-Neil commented 1 year ago

On linux the easiest way to reorder the list, it's just to edit loginusers.vdf and put the latest systime on the user like 1694505196 and then the account will pop up to first.

Yeah no stress, I can live with it how steam has it at the moment

Razzaline commented 11 months ago

I didn't know about the five account limit, but the main reason I still use it is I find it does the switching faster than Steam's built-in account switcher. (Although at the moment it appears to be partially broken, in that I can't switch accounts while Steam is open, so I haven't been using it as much recently.)