Valve Begins Landing SteamOS Changes In Steam Client
Valve has begun pushing Steam Big Picture changes for SteamOS into their public Steam client, but hidden behind a command-line argument.
If running the very latest Linux Steam client and launching it with steam -steamos there's a few subtle changes beginning to appear within the Big Picture Mode. If navigating to the system area of Steam's full-screen UI, there's now a "SteamOS Version" displayed along with a "Check for SteamOS updates" button. In the strings to the steamclient.so file is confirmation that it's for "[forcing] Steam to believe it is running under SteamOS."
The only other SteamOS-related strings present in the binaries I checked out were about SteamOS updates, a steamos-update binary, and calls concerning under-scan and brightness levels.
That's what appears so far, but we're still digging deeper and will be monitoring forthcoming client updates.
If running the very latest Linux Steam client and launching it with steam -steamos there's a few subtle changes beginning to appear within the Big Picture Mode. If navigating to the system area of Steam's full-screen UI, there's now a "SteamOS Version" displayed along with a "Check for SteamOS updates" button. In the strings to the steamclient.so file is confirmation that it's for "[forcing] Steam to believe it is running under SteamOS."
The only other SteamOS-related strings present in the binaries I checked out were about SteamOS updates, a steamos-update binary, and calls concerning under-scan and brightness levels.
That's what appears so far, but we're still digging deeper and will be monitoring forthcoming client updates.
44 Comments