Forcing steam into offline mode automatically

[Dan Kegel]

Looks like this can be done by creating the file

~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steam.cfg

containing the line
ForceOfflineMode=enable

and maybe also the lines

BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable
MinFootprintAutoRefresh=disable
BootStrapperForceSelfUpdate =disable
FullMemoryMinidumps = disable
BootStrapperForceClientBootstrap = disable

It looks like this is only obeyed if it's new, so you might need to
touch the file
after the first launch?

No idea how to script disabling the community, so that just
has to be done manually using the steam UI.

[Austin English]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 15:29, Dan Kegel <da...@kegel.com> wrote:
> No idea how to script disabling the community, so that just
> has to be done manually using the steam UI.

Looking at some diff's, it seems the magical file is:
/home/austin/.wine/drive_c/Program
Files/Steam/userdata/61922990/config/localconfig.vdf

(presumably that number is your steam id, or something. That file has:
"UserLocalConfigStore"
{
....
"system"
{
"EnableGameOverlay" "0"
"InGameOverlayShortcutKey" "Shift KEY_TAB"
"InGameOverlayScreenshotKey" "Shift KEY_INSERT"
"UsePushToTalk" "0"
"PushToTalkKey" "0"
}
}

I didn't look at disabling it before running, but that should help.

--
-Austin

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Dan Kegel <da...@kegel.com> wrote:
> Looks like this can be done by creating the file
>
> ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steam.cfg
>
> containing the line
> ForceOfflineMode=enable

Darn it, I'm still getting prompted whether I *really*
want offline mode. EG, did you have an autohotkey
script to click past that dialog?