[Wine] Full screen and virtual desktop

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 14:05:20 CDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:59 PM, "Rémi G." <remjg at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently playing Outcast with Wine. As this game runs in a very low
> resolution (512x384), I need to play in full screen mode.
> Besides, I also need to kill the game when exiting since I can't skip
> credits (bug 13757
> <http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13757>).Therefore, I use a virtual
> desktop to avoid resolution problems when killing Wine.
>
> So my question is : if I use a virtual desktop in 1024x768 for instance and
> I run the game in full screen, should the game be played in 1024x768?
> Indeed, Wine automatically resize my virtual desktop to 512x384...
>
> Thank you very much for your answer!
>
>

The virtual desktop acts as its own screen. The game should start at
1024x768, then when the game goes 'full screen', it'll resize the
desktop.


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