Leaving Fullscreen games loses folder sizes

[Bladeforce]

Hi, Just a quick question..

When I run some games in full screen, particularly ones from the Windows 98 era, if I have a folder open before I run the game then run the game when I exit some games seem to restore the desktop to my default but the folder all of a sudden becomes maximized.
I am guessing this is a fault with the game not exiting correctly or is it something in Wine?

Many thanks

[dimesio]

It is a longstanding bug in X that is unlikely ever to be fixed. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14255

[Bladeforce]

Ah thanks dimesio. I do remember some windows games actually exiting in the wrong resolution too in windows 98 to be honest

[etwineb]

My suggestion is start your program with a script like this:

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xrandr -s 1024x768
wine myprogram.exe
xrandr -s 0

Or even execute the program in a second X server:

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xinit /usr/bin/wine myprogram.exe -- :1