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isomillennium
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Wine : Windows and Fonts Are Huge

Post by isomillennium »

I have Ubuntu 8.04 and installed wine but the windows and fonts are extremly big and wont show the whole window ..

here are some screenshots
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Sc ... Wizard.png
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Screenshot.png
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Screenshot2.png

What could be the reason for this ?
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Re: Wine : Windows and Fonts Are Huge

Post by vitamin »

isomillennium wrote:I have Ubuntu 8.04 and installed wine but the windows and fonts are extremly big and wont show the whole window ..

here are some screenshots
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Sc ... Wizard.png
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Screenshot.png
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Screenshot2.png

What could be the reason for this ?
You changed DPI setting in winecfg. Remove ~/.wine directory and repeat.
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Wine : Windows and Fonts Are Huge

Post by austin987 »

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM, isomillennium
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have Ubuntu 8.04 and installed wine but the windows and fonts are extremly big and wont show the whole window ..

here are some screenshots
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Sc ... Wizard.png
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Screenshot.png
http://clan911.sytes.net/hugewindows/Screenshot2.png

What could be the reason for this ?





Did you change the DPI setting in winecfg?
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Problem Solved

Post by isomillennium »

Gotcha Thanx Problem Solved .. im an idiot i forgot i've changed it .. thanx lol
Dan Kegel

Wine : Windows and Fonts Are Huge

Post by Dan Kegel »

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:54 AM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:
I have Ubuntu 8.04 and installed wine but the windows and fonts are
extremly big and wont show the whole window ..
You changed DPI setting in winecfg. Remove ~/.wine directory and repeat.
I improved the FAQ to make it easier to find the answer to his question:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-b197e29 ... f506fb68e0
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