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kahrkunne

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Registered: 2013-08-24

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wine fullscreen issues

When I try to fullscreen certain applications in wine, it does a couple of things:
* It changes my resolution, both on my main and my other monitor, probably to match the resolution of the game. Key here is that also the resolution of my other monitor is changed, which shouldn't happen
* It resizes the window of the application to the size of my main monitor
* The application still appears in the same size as before, now in the top left corner of the monitor it was on. The rest of the application's window is gibberish, artifacts from windows that used to be there and such

So far this has occured on the VNs Yume Miru Kusuri and Tsukihime, as well on multiple of the Touhou games (I don't know which exactly, but I know for a fact that Touhou 6 does this).

I'm using i3 as window manager, but I recall that similar problems have occured with the Touhou games on dwm and I believe some other tiling WMs. Notably, the problem does not occur on Awesome WM.

The problem does not occur on all wine applications. I don't use WINE much for things other than VNs and the Touhou games, but I know for a fact that the problem does not occur with Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

Last edited by kahrkunne (2014-07-05 10:02:44)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: wine fullscreen issues

I can confirm such issues while using i3. The only solution so far was running the games explicitly in fullscreen (per i3 config). I usually have this problem with Steam games.

kahrkunne

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Registered: 2013-08-24

Posts: 88

Re: wine fullscreen issues

This helps in some cases, with some other, non-WINE things.
When I do this, only the last point happens, which still makes this useless. Also, the window does not seem to get redrawn at all, meaning I'm basically staring at a static window full of artifacts.

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

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Re: wine fullscreen issues

Changing the primary monitors resolution to that of the wine applications window size and then running it in a virtual desktop (wine explorer /desktop=Wine,_XSIZE_x_YSIZE_) could be one workaround.

Edit: Never used i3 myself, so this may not apply. Works with most problematic applications with openbox as windows manager (without DE).

Last edited by emeres (2014-07-05 16:14:20)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: wine fullscreen issues

See old thread - try compiling wine with:

--without-xrandr

kahrkunne

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Registered: 2013-08-24

Posts: 88

Re: wine fullscreen issues

Ah, that might work. It looks better than all these dirty hacks at least.