Hi, if you don't like to read the reason of the question, skip the blue part ;) i usually like to play older games with wine, and many of them are restricted to a screen resolution of SVGA or XGA ect. This looks of course incredibly bad on a Full HD Widescreen. Some of these games offer parameters or modes to play them in windowed mode (DiabloII, ...), some of them do only support the ALT+Return method (which doesn't seem to work in wine?), some of them do neither. Fortunately I can start all games on an emulated Desktop with small size Question: is it possible to start wine with a parameter or prefix that makes it switch to emulated desktop mode? It's annoying to start winecfg to enable/disable it every time before starting a specific application :( Kind regards, Snowball
On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 04:25 -0500, Snowball wrote:> i usually like to play older games with wine, and many of them are > restricted to a screen resolution of SVGA or XGA ect. This looks of > course incredibly bad on a Full HD Widescreen. > > Some of these games offer parameters or modes to play them in windowed > mode (DiabloII, ...), some of them do only support the ALT+Return > method (which doesn't seem to work in wine?), some of them do neither. > > Fortunately I can start all games on an emulated Desktop with small > size > > Question: is it possible to start wine with a parameter or prefix that > makes it switch to emulated desktop mode? It's annoying to start > winecfg to enable/disable it every time before starting a specific > application :( >Put the game(s) in a separate wine prefix and/or run it from a shell script that does something like: #!/bin/bash export WINEPREFIX = $HOME/name_of_prefix # set emulated desktop mode cd $WINEPREFIX/name of directory containing the program wine the_program # unset emulated mode Martin> Kind regards, Snowball > > > >
Snowball wrote:> > Question: is it possible to start wine with a parameter or prefix that makes it switch to emulated desktop mode? It's annoying to start winecfg to enable/disable it every time before starting a specific application :( >You can set it for each app individually in winecfg. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-71769cc3bcde386512565adf0387fb5f2158b60b