^Manu Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) What I'm looking for, is a solution where I can easily switch users, or perhaps even assign a user per controller (like modern consoles do), and specifically, apply the user to Steam games when launching. Trouble is, we have a living room console-replacement, there are 2 steam accounts, and steam big-picture doesn't switch users properly, we have to type hideously long passwords and 2FA every time we want to switch users. Since Valve can't make big picture work with zillions of dollars, I'm looking for 3rd party solutions. Is this a feature of LaunchBox? Could it be a feature of LaunchBox? Edited July 18, 2019 by ^Manu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 One thought is; we each have a windows login, and Steam configured for each of our windows accounts. I feel like we should be able to launch games as our respective windows user, and have the appropriate Steam account apply to the session. You can launch apps with a select user account using `runas /user:UserName cmd...` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, ^Manu said: Is this a feature of LaunchBox? It is not. 4 minutes ago, ^Manu said: Could it be a feature of LaunchBox? It's unlikely to be. 1 minute ago, ^Manu said: we each have a windows login You can have different installs of LB for each user account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 Just now, Lordmonkus said: You can have different installs of LB for each user account. It's unreasonably inconvenient to logout and then login with a different windows user on a machine with no mouse... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: It's unlikely to be. Shame. How come? Undesirable feature? I would gladly buy something like LaunchBox for hundreds of dollars if it had just that one feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 It has been asked for on occasion and has been on past polls but never got enough votes to make it worthwhile doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 On 7/17/2019 at 8:39 PM, Lordmonkus said: It has been asked for on occasion and has been on past polls but never got enough votes to make it worthwhile doing. What magnitude bounty would make it worthwhile to the dev team to reconsider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, ^Manu said: What magnitude bounty would make it worthwhile to the dev team to reconsider? The problem is there is no "Dev Team" Just Jason, so he has to prioritize features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 10 minutes ago, neil9000 said: The problem is there is no "Dev Team" Just Jason, so he has to prioritize features. Well my question is probably better directed directly at Jason in that case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 There is also no bounty system as in a community where we use democracy to choose features would be seriously tainted if users could just pay to have their feature pushed to the top of the priority list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 I feel you @^Manu, but unfortunately this is more of an issue with Steam than anything else. As far as I've found, there's no way to switch Steam accounts without actually logging out and signing in to a different account. It's actually been such a pain for my family that I mostly stopped buying Steam games a long time ago, as the DRM is just way too restrictive. I haven't fully tested the scenario, but I don't believe that using runas would get around Steam's logins and allow you to have two Steam users logged in at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Jason Carr said: I feel you @^Manu, but unfortunately this is more of an issue with Steam than anything else. As far as I've found, there's no way to switch Steam accounts without actually logging out and signing in to a different account. It's actually been such a pain for my family that I mostly stopped buying Steam games a long time ago, as the DRM is just way too restrictive. I haven't fully tested the scenario, but I don't believe that using runas would get around Steam's logins and allow you to have two Steam users logged in at once. I wonder if we could login with user A a launch steam for that user. Then runas another instance of steam for the user B. Then when you runas a game for either user, it may the steam instance already active and ready to go, and just get on with launching he game? It does seem possible to have 2 steam instances running; if you login with A, run steam, then switch user to B, and run steam, both users will have a steam instance. So we just want to fiddle that arrangement so both instances are accessible from one windows session... I think there might be a path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 minute ago, ^Manu said: I wonder if we could login with user A a launch steam for that user. Then runas another instance of steam for the user B. Then when you runas a game for either user, it may the steam instance already active and ready to go, and just get on with launching he game? It does seem possible to have 2 steam instances running; if you login with A, run steam, then switch user to B, and run steam, both users will have a steam instance. So we just want to fiddle that arrangement so both instances are accessible from one windows session... I think there might be a path. There might be, though it would be cludgy, if possible. I don't think it's something we can build into LaunchBox, but you can certainly experiment with batch files or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 6 hours ago, DOS76 said: There is also no bounty system as in a community where we use democracy to choose features would be seriously tainted if users could just pay to have their feature pushed to the top of the priority list. Well, that sounds nice... But developers also like to (and deserve to) make some living I could take a contract from TechSoft to do something mind-numbing, or work on my hobby project. I must pay my rent... which one should I choose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 minute ago, ^Manu said: Well, that sounds nice... But developers also like to (and deserve to) make some living I could take a contract from TechSoft to do something mind-numbing, or work on my hobby project. I must pay my rent... which one should I choose? The point is that LaunchBox is profitable right now, at least as much as I need to continue development for a long time. I don't take bounties because I don't need to, and I would prefer to do what the community as a whole wants, and not one particular user. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Also, I dare say that this is one benefit of a paid software solution over an open source donations-based project: I get to work on what the community wants as a whole, instead of a small handful of more wealthy users with money to spend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 minute ago, Jason Carr said: Also, I dare say that this is one benefit of a paid software solution over an open source donations-based project: I get to work on what the community wants as a whole, instead of a small handful of more wealthy users with money to spend. Fair enough. Well aside from that, I'm still interested in thinking about how a great solution to this problem might look. A user system that feels like modern consoles would be great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Manu Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 Incidentally, I see nothing about multi-user support or user profiles at all in the current poll, so we can't actually vote for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, ^Manu said: Incidentally, I see nothing about multi-user support or user profiles at all in the current poll, so we can't actually vote for this Its not on the poll because there wasnt enough interest in it to even make it that far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 I believe it was discussed during the stream and did not receive enough positive feedback to make the poll. At the end of the stream Jason had well over 60 items and had to reduce it to 40 for the poll. 38 of the items discussed were responded to positively during the stream and those are all on the poll. What was left either had very negative reaction or just luke warm so we pickled 2 items from the luke warm list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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