[Bug 51890] New: A lot more old games would be so much more usable if wine's virtual desktop had proper resizing
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 Bug ID: 51890 Summary: A lot more old games would be so much more usable if wine's virtual desktop had proper resizing Product: Wine-staging Version: 6.18 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: el(a)horse64.org CC: leslie_alistair(a)hotmail.com, z.figura12(a)gmail.com Distribution: --- I have a really significant amount of older games around, none of which will launch on this machine without wine's virtual desktop feature because on a widescreen monitor, they determine there is no "expected" fullscreen resolution available and crash. Now I'd just use the virtual desktop, except it feels archaic and not very usable: why is it that for a 800x600 game on a 800x600 virtual desktop, I can't just maximize the virtual desktop window and get the virtual desktop SCALED UP with proper letterboxing so I can play in some other way than a tiny window with zero immersion and everything so small I can barely see it? Funnily enough I can even resize the virtual desktop window except the resizing is fully ignored and I just get black void with no scaling up all around with the game stuck in the top-left, and the maximizing is blocked. Scaling up (with automatic letterboxing), maximizing would seem like such obvious features to make virtual desktop gaming infinitely less clumsy and weird that I am a bit surprised it's not in there yet. Can it please be added?? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 --- Comment #1 from el(a)horse64.org --- Oh and while we're at it: F11 should also toggle the virtual desktop into a borderless fullscreen window. Launching it like that in the first place could also be a new checkbox in winecfg in the settings tab where the virtual desktop is enabled. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 Zebediah Figura <z.figura12(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|leslie_alistair(a)hotmail.com | |, z.figura12(a)gmail.com | Product|Wine-staging |Wine Component|-unknown |winex11.drv Summary|A lot more old games would |Scale fullscreen window |be so much more usable if |contents when resizing the |wine's virtual desktop had |virtual desktop window |proper resizing | -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 Zebediah Figura <z.figura12(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |z.figura12(a)gmail.com --- Comment #2 from Zebediah Figura <z.figura12(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to el from comment #1)
Oh and while we're at it: F11 should also toggle the virtual desktop into a borderless fullscreen window. Launching it like that in the first place could also be a new checkbox in winecfg in the settings tab where the virtual desktop is enabled.
That could do with a separate bug report. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 Fabian Maurer <dark.shadow4(a)web.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dark.shadow4(a)web.de -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 --- Comment #3 from Ken Sharp <imwellcushtymelike(a)gmail.com> --- Can't the desktop/window manager do this? I've never tried... -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890 --- Comment #4 from Esme Povirk <madewokherd(a)gmail.com> --- Gamescope could be used as a potential work-around. It's difficult for Wine to do this given how X11 virtual desktops are implemented. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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