[Wine] zooming wine windows?

Ákos Maróy darkeye at tyrell.hu
Wed Jul 11 08:50:47 CDT 2007


L. Rahyen wrote:
> 	Resizing of pixels is the problem of your video card or monitor and 
> completely unrelated to WINE.
> 	What I do when I want good and smooth picture in such cases: I use full 
> screen mode with stretching and even 640x480 looks very nice on my main 
> display with native resolution 1680x1050 (this is the default for most TFT 
> monitors and done automatically).
> 	If I want to use both the application (or game) with low resolution and other 
> programs simultaneously on one display (very rare actually because I have two 
> monitors) then I do one of the following: I'm using Ctrl+Alt+NumPad_Plus or 
> Ctrl+Alt+NumPad_Minus to switch to the resolution I like to get necessary 
> magnification; it is also possible to use settings of the KDE (and maybe 
> GNOME) desktop to switch real desktop resolution.
> 	If you have ancient CRT monitor then low resolutions will look very bad on 
> it. Solution for this problem is to set proper settings in the xorg.conf so 
> your video card will give double resolution for very low video modes for your 
> monitor so for example 640x480 will be as good as 1280x960. Of course this 
> isn't necessary for modern TFT displays because they can do much better 
> smooth stretching.

I understand what you're saying, and I'm aware of these solutions. They
unfortuantely don't really work for me as:

- doing Ctrl-Alt-+ will hide most of the desktop

- running on full-size in another monitor beats the prupose of running
in multiple windows..


Akos




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