{"id":47921,"date":"2025-01-06T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=47921"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:22:30","slug":"steam-native-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/steam-native-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Steam App Look Modern & Native in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to beatify your Steam app window in Ubuntu or other Linux. Here’s a free open-source project to do the job in GNOME.<\/p>\n

It’s Adwaita for Steam<\/a>, a skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app. With it, the title and tool bars will be merged into a compact GNOME Client-Side Decoration style header bar.<\/p>\n

Along with rounded window corners extension, it will look just like a native app.<\/p>\n

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Steam with Adwaita skin<\/p><\/div>\n

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The skin support many different color themes, including Adwaita, Yaru, Pop, Kate, Breeze, Tokyo-Night, Metro, and more.<\/p>\n

It can also change the control buttons (maximize, minimize, and close buttons) to MacOS, Windows, and GNOME (Adwaita) Style, configure sidebar to always show or hover only, and show\/hide the QR code at login.<\/p>\n

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hover side-bar and macOS style control buttons<\/p><\/div>\n

Step 1: Install the Adwaita for Steam skin<\/h3>\n

NOTE: The skin is tested and works in Ubuntu 24.04 with Steam Flatpak and Deb package. Not sure if it works for the Snap package.<\/b><\/p>\n

The skin can be installed through either command line installer script or a graphical tool. Choose either way that you prefer.<\/p>\n

Option 1: Use the python installer<\/h4>\n

The project offers a Python installer to install the skin from command line.<\/p>\n

First, press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> on keyboard to open up a terminal window. When it opens, run commands below one by one.<\/p>\n