Desktop icons all scattered after return from Pinball

[dougmack]

Topic says it all. I like the Microsoft Pinball game, but after I play it, which works perfectly , I log off it and all my desktop icons are sent higgledy-piggledy into one part of the screen. I see this in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of PCLinuxOS KDE.
Is there a script or something to avoid this?

Thanx--doug

[etwineb]

It might be caused by the change of resolution, KDE tries to accommodate all the icons in the tighter space and it messes up when the space comes back again. Try to execute the game in a wine virtual desktop and see if it is the case.

If it is, I would try to execute the game in a secondary X server, you can also try fsgamer that should automate the process.

[dougmack]

I don't know how to do either one. I'm running this from Play On Linux, but I tried it a couple of years ago from straight Wine
and it did the same thing. I had to give up playing the game, which I will have to do now if I don't have a solution.

--doug

[etwineb]

Assuming you start your play-on-linux thingy with POL write a little script (I assume you call it POL.sh) with this content:

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#!/bin/bash
openbox &
OPENBOX="$!"
POL "$@"
kill -2 "$OPENBOX"

make it executable with chmod 755 POL.sh.

And finally start it with:
xinit "`readlink -e POL.sh`" -- :1

Ensure you have openbox installed. The idea is to start a new X server that executes only your play-on-linux thingy and a minimal window manager (openbox). The execution should be completely separated from your original X server and so your icons should not get moved.


Out of topic, everyone speaks about this Play on Linux thingy, what is that?