how to disable fullscreen mode in games?

vnu007dl · Post by **vnu007dl** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:25 am

Generally I use Wine to play games. But some of them can freeze my pc during closing game, so I can only reboot my PC. I dlike to ask how to disable full screen mode in games? I tried use command:

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wine game.exe -w

or

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wine game.exe -window

but it doesn't work
I tried also use virtual desktop, but it look like this:

Any hints?

Cloudef · Post by **Cloudef** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:44 am

1. Check game options for windowed mode
2. Run in virtual desktop, however the screen looks like that because there is no correct resolution in game
3. Are you sure your system freezes? Can you switch to virtual terminal?
- If yes, then your system isn't frozen and you can kill the application
- If no, then your GPU && driver probably sucks
4. If your system isn't frozen, you could start the game to seperate X display where it's fullscreen, but you can still switch out of it.

Best would be that the game offered windowed mode and different resolutions however.

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:03 am

If you go with a virtual desktop ( I cannot see those tiny little pictures well) make sure in wine cfg that you are allowing the window manager to decorate and control windows. This will make the virtual desktop a normal window you can move around, and all the programs running will see that window as the monitor and even fullscreen apps will just use that window.

vnu007dl · Post by **vnu007dl** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:17 am

@doh123
It doesnt works, I have this option enabled

@Cloudef
Some game doesn't has option for window mode, or even resolution

Are you sure your system freezes? Can you switch to virtual terminal?

How to switch to virtual terminal?
I use KDE and ctrl+esc doesn't works.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:26 am

How to switch to virtual terminal?
I use KDE and ctrl+esc doesn't works.

ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-f2 ... unless for some reason your distro
disabled these.

John

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:33 pm

vnu007dl wrote:@doh123
It doesnt works, I have this option enabled

@Cloudef
Some game doesn't has option for window mode, or even resolution

Are you sure your system freezes? Can you switch to virtual terminal?
How to switch to virtual terminal?
I use KDE and ctrl+esc doesn't works.

I don't know if you've noticed, but your picture's thumbnails still just link to thumbnails.

vnu007dl · Post by **vnu007dl** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:31 am

Sorry for my mistake, I put wrong link

Now should be ok:)

This is Wine: 1.3.25 (polish language)