Resize Steam Overlay
Solution 1:
The Big Picture skin itself is not actually modifiable [at least not as of yet] because everything is reset when the client starts.
The best option, AFAIK, would probably be to use some command-line options for Big Picture mode:
-
-480p
- Run tenfoot in 480p rather than 1080p -
-720p
- Run tenfoot in 720p rather than 1080p -
-bigpicture
- Start in Steam Big Picture mode -
-fulldesktopres
- Run tenfoot in full desktop resolution rather than 1080p, overrides-720p
as well. -
-nobigpicture
- Start in regular mode (force Big Picture mode off) -
-tenfoot
- Start in Steam Big Picture mode -
-windowed
- Run Steam tenfoot mode in a window rather than a fullscreen borderless window
I think -bigpicture -fulldesktopres
should work for you (or -tenfoot
instead of -bigpicture
). These can be added to a shortcuts 'Target' to make it easy -- otherwise you'll have to use the command-line and open Steam.exe
with the args you choose, which is what Mac is forced to do (open -a Steam.app --args argsgohere
), and possibly Linux too but I don't know because I don't know Linux well enough.
Also not sure if this will help with the notifications being massive; if not they may be part of an editable portion of the skin but I wouldn't count on it because BP has it's own overlay definition AFAIK.