Wine fullscreen issues

Question

When I try to fullscreen certain applications in wine, it does a couple of things:
* It changes my resolution, both on my main and my other monitor, probably to match the resolution of the game. Key here is that also the resolution of my other monitor is changed, which shouldn't happen
* It resizes the window of the application to the size of my main monitor
* The application still appears in the same size as before, now in the top left corner of the monitor it was on. The rest of the application's window is gibberish, artifacts from windows that used to be there and such
So far this has occured on the VNs Yume Miru Kusuri and Tsukihime, as well on multiple of the Touhou games (I don't know which exactly, but I know for a fact that Touhou 6 does this).
I'm using i3 as window manager, but I recall that similar problems have occured with the Touhou games on dwm and I believe some other tiling WMs. Notably, the problem does not occur on Awesome WM.
The problem does not occur on all wine applications. I don't use WINE much for things other than VNs and the Touhou games, but I know for a fact that the problem does not occur with Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
Last edited by kahrkunne (2014-07-05 10:02:44)

Answer 1

Changing the primary monitors resolution to that of the wine applications window size and then running it in a virtual desktop (wine explorer /desktop=Wine,_XSIZE_x_YSIZE_) could be one workaround.
Edit: Never used i3 myself, so this may not apply. Works with most problematic applications with openbox as windows manager (without DE).
Last edited by emeres (2014-07-05 16:14:20)