For me, 1600x1200 (my native monitor resolution) is sharp, text looks fine (when enlarged), but many games played are too small. Nowhere is this truer than for (e.g.,) Solitaire and FreeCell whose Windows versions I have running inside a Wine Window.
I haven’t found a way to lower the resolution that these games play at in these Wine windows to, say, 1280x960 or 1024x768. Doesn’t matter if I use Win95, 98 2000, XP or Win7 versions of these programs. This has been the situation for every Wine/openSuse combo I have used for the past 5 or 6 years, including the current 11.3 plus KDE 3.5 or 4.4x, and up to the latest Wine version.
As a consequence, I have to set the whole desktop resolution to 1280x960 or 1024x768 for “everything, all the time”, These resolutions, being interpolated, aren’t as sharp as the monitor’s native resolution and cause a few other minor issues but, what the heck, they are a “fix all” solution.
Does anyone know how to change the effective resolution of games/programs running inside a Wine window. If I use Winecfg and it’s “setting”, all it does is change the size of the window. In other words, Solitaire remains at the same resolution/size it was, but the “window” that it resides in is bigger/smaller, depending on which way you go on the winecfg slider.
Please, no mention of VMs as a “solution”. If there’s no Wine solution, then please just say so.
You need to look in the ~/.wine user.reg file by the looks (I run
crossover) but can’t you do that with the winecfg tool? The other ones
to look at are system.reg and userdef.reg. As always I would make a
copy first to play with.
sorenson2743 wrote:
> Solitaire and FreeCell … If there’s no Wine solution, then please
> just say so.
sorry, i don’t have a clue about WINE (never use it) but i know that
there are native Linux versions of both Solitaire and FreeCell…
i know that won’t solve your resolution in WINE problem, but it will
let you play those two games at a pretty nice resolution while you are
waiting on a WINE guru to happen along…
speaking of which, you might get a quicker answer at the place where
most WINE gurus hang http://www.winehq.org/
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DenverD
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