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Over the years Steam has been slowly replacing aspects of the Steam Client from VGUI to a web-based framework called [https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef Chromium Embedded Framework]
On April 27th, 2023 Steam skins '''completely lost support''' and only work through community based patching methods.

==History==
Removal of skin support for the Friends List on [https://steamcommunity.com/app/593110/eventcomments/1633040337767599626/ July 24th 2018]

Removal of skin support for the Library on [https://steamcommunity.com/app/593110/eventcomments/1640926712932113346/ October 30th 2019]

Removal of skin support for the main window frame and all additional windows in Steam Beta on [https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/eventcomments/3826413850812502632/ April 27th 2023]

The above update was later pushed to all users since [https://steamcommunity.com/app/593110/eventcomments/5514142341086067567/ June 15, 2023], completely removing skin support for all common windows. 

== Can I Still Install themes? ==
Yes, Steam themes still exist! And the community is still thriving! 

== How to install themes in {{CURRENTYEAR}}==

As the official skin support (for [[VGUI]]) has been removed, with the new CEF-based UI not providing any official way of changing skins, it was unofficially replaced by '''[https://steambrew.app Millennium for Steam]''' '''For Windows 10+'''<br>
Millennium is an open source patcher that allows skins/themes after April 27th 2023. [https://github.com/ShadowMonster99/millennium-steam-patcher view source]

[[File:SteamTheme2024.png|thumb|left|Millennium for Steam with a dark version of the Steam Client loaded [https://millennium.web.app/theme?id=F8h9ZhwOdoNygNcAfjIZ from here] ]]
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==Setting Up==
Refer to this page [https://github.com/ShadowMonster99/millennium-steam-patcher/?tab=readme-ov-file#installation Installation Guide]

== Finding Themes == 
The main sources for up-to-date themes are found on this website 
* https://steambrew.app/themes

== Discord Community ==
* https://steambrew.app/discord