Hi Redeeman, I had this problem when getting warcraft 3 to work. I'm not sure that this is the best solution, but I solved it by running the game on a new X server with the resolution that the game runs in. I wanted it to run by simply typing 'war3', and to exit cleanly when I exited the game. To do this I did the following:
1. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config to add another screen section with the settings for warcraft. This is just another Screen section after my existing one, which looks like this: Section "Screen" Identifier "1024x768x16" Device "nvidia gf2mx" Monitor "NEC XP21" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection The important part is the 'Identifier', which I'll use later. The other settings should be similar to your existing Screen section/s. 2. Add a file to /etc/X11/Sessions which is where gentoo's startx script looks for windowmanagers. The file, called 'war3' contains the following: #!/bin/sh cd /home/ajc/.wine/fake_windows/Games/Warcraft\ III /usr/bin/wine -- War3.exe -opengl Basically all this does is execute the command to start warcraft. 3. Add the file /usr/local/bin/war3 containing: #!/bin/bash XSESSION=war3 startx -- :1 -screen 1024x768x16 This starts the new X server on display :1 (the default server is on :0) with the 1024x768x16 screen and runs warcraft. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt this approach to other games. Actually, now that I look at it, it's probably better to do steps 2 and 3 with one shell script that calls xinit with the right arguments, but I know this way works so I'll stick to it for now. Let me know if you find a better way around this problem. --Alex On 15:35 Sat 08 Nov , Redeeman wrote: > hi, i am trying to wine pocket tanks, and it starts okay, but it sets > lower resolution, but it doesent change resolution correct, because it > does the same as ctrl + alt + '-' > so that it still has 1600x1200, but only views 800x600, and the rest is > scrollable, and then when i move the mouse in the wined game, it goes > out of the 800x600 and then it fucks up, is there any way to fix this? > -- > Regards, Redeeman > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list