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 > > > >
