Aurum - Unified Extendable Work & Gaming Overlay News

A patch has been aplied to a bug that caused Aurum to crash when it started without Steam running and crashed when Steam was launched.

I did start the Aurum project here on Steam as it helps greatly with built in community, workshop and homepage. The downside is unforutnatelly is the necessary connection with the running Steam app.
Therefore I have finally implemented, although admittedly a bit late, the first approach, via a weekly with-steam-refresh. You have to start Steam at least once every weak to refresh.

If you want to close steam after both started, you can add a button to your GUI with: "powershell stop-process -name steam" (without quotes) to exit steam.

Second overdue feature was user content encryption, to ensure art is not being distributed openly. All user content is now in an unreadable file format.


If you are interested in desktop composition, drop a question at the forums and or give it a try!

I wasn't able to create a new update for some time but here it comes.
It will stay in beta for this week and be pushed over to public next week.

It's quite an important change actually, you can now use Aurum without having to run steam simultaniously. You have to start it next to Aurum at least once a week to refresh.
Note there might be a better solution in future.
If you want to close steam after both started, you can add a button to your GUI with: "powershell stop-process -name steam" (without quotes) to kill steam.


Also Aurum now got user content encryption, to ensure art is not being distributed openly.


Hope you like it, I created Aurum to be able to create my own OS frontend and have all features easily reachable.

.Status bar on the overlays page is now clean by default and info can be toggled by clicking
.Overlay green/red toggle button has been fixed to properly update when deleting/adding layers
.Editing overlay/layer names can now be confirmed with Enter

The following has been updated in yesterdays fix:
General performance,
Visual GUI fixes,
Skin designer now stays connected to skin picker