[Bug 51890] New: A lot more old games would be so much more usable if wine's virtual desktop had proper resizing

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

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: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
      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??

[Bug 51890] A lot more old games would be so much more usable if wine's virtual desktop had proper resizing

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890

--- Comment #1 from [e-mail] ---
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.

[Bug 51890] Scale fullscreen window contents when resizing the virtual desktop window

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890

Zebediah Figura  changed:

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            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             |

[Bug 51890] Scale fullscreen window contents when resizing the virtual desktop window

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890

Zebediah Figura  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(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.

[Bug 51890] Scale fullscreen window contents when resizing the virtual desktop window

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890

Fabian Maurer  changed:

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[Bug 51890] Scale fullscreen window contents when resizing the virtual desktop window

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890

--- Comment #3 from Ken Sharp  ---
Can't the desktop/window manager do this? I've never tried...

[Bug 51890] Scale fullscreen window contents when resizing the virtual desktop window

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51890

--- Comment #4 from Esme Povirk  ---
Gamescope could be used as a potential work-around. It's difficult for Wine to
do this given how X11 virtual desktops are implemented.