https://github.com/roxasshadow/vaporizza
Just a pretty Windows Gadget which displays and allows to run a list of your (Steam) games on your desktop.
https://github.com/roxasshadow/vaporizza
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Just a pretty Windows Gadget which displays and allows to run a list of your (Steam) games on your desktop.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/roxasshadow/vaporizza
- Owner: RoxasShadow
- Created: 2012-09-30T21:17:52.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2013-07-15T21:12:42.000Z (about 13 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-02T11:49:36.660Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 556 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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Vaporizza
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Vaporize all your desktop icons!
Just a pretty Windows Gadget which displays and allows to run a list of your Steam games on your desktop.
Installation
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- Download [Vaporizza]
- Be sure your Steam profile is public
- Go in your Steam path (usually `C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\` or `C:\Program Files\Steam\`) and create here a text file called `userid.txt`
- Go in your Steam profile, paste in `userid.txt` your userID (`http://steamcommunity.com/id/HappyUser/` => `HappyUser`) and save it
- Install `Vaporizza.gadget` just clicking on it
- Click the right mouse button on the desktop -> View -> Show Desktop Gadgets
- ???
- Profit!
In order to add some applications in Steam (Origin, uPlay, free-DRM games and whatever), just `Steam -> Games -> Add a non steam game to my library`.
To add them on Vaporizza, download and run (and/or copy it in the Windows startup folder) [SteamShortcutsToXML].
If you want you can get the sources of SteamShortcutsToXML just search it through my repositories.
Gadgets on Windows 8
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- Download [Windows Sidebar]
- Copy `files` and `install.cmd` in `C:\System32`
- Run as administrator `install.cmd` and proceed with the wizard
- Delete `files` and `install.cmd` from `C:\System32`
- ???
- Profit!
Dependences
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- `zip` (for Linux) or `7zip` (for Windows) to build the gadget from the sources
- Windows Sidebar
Screenshots
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- [http://screenshotto.giovannicapuano.net/photos/Screenshots/NJCB.png]
- [http://screenshotto.giovannicapuano.net/photos/Screenshots/GXWG.png]
[Vaporizza]: https://github.com/RoxasShadow/Vaporizza/raw/master/bin/Vaporizza.gadget
[SteamShortcutsToXML]: https://github.com/RoxasShadow/Vaporizza/raw/master/tools/SteamShortcutsToXML.exe
[Windows Sidebar]: http://cl.ly/2k012I3J231b/download/Windows%20Sidebar%20for%20Windows%208%20RTM.zip
[http://i.imgur.com/SBD94.jpg]:http://i.imgur.com/SBD94.jpg
[http://i.imgur.com/PRk1I.jpg]:http://i.imgur.com/PRk1I.jpg