Starcraft + Wine= Cannot get mouse to stay on game

[bexamous]

Argh I've been trying to play Starcraft and I'm SOOOO close.... almost better than Windows.... except I cannot get the mouse to stick to the game which makes it insanely hard to move around the map.

winecfg setting "Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window" does nothing.

I've tried everything I can think of, there must be some way to fix this.

Ideas?

[syntaxers]

I'm having the same problem. Any assistance would be great!

I am running Wine using a virtual desktop in windowed mode with the 'Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving the window' option checked.

[jhoeijao]

I'm having the same problem. Any assistance would be great!

I am running Wine using a virtual desktop in windowed mode with the 'Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving the window' option checked.

Try the latest wine version 1.1.24. I'm using starcraft portable version with no problem with it.

[donkyhotay]

You could try playing starcraft fullscreen, mouse can't leave the game then! (c:

[Sugi]

I couldn't understand playing StarCraft without Full screen mode for any reason specially on my 1920x1080. Maybe your setup isn't as big as mine, but wouldn't full screen be better for playing Starcraft anyways? And the last I heard, winecfg setting "Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window" does nothing. That feature has been broken for ages.

Try either 1.1.24 with windows mode or try full screen and get back to us.

Sugi

[del_diablo]

You could try playing starcraft fullscreen, mouse can't leave the game then! (c:

It would, where there not for the chances of when you shutdown that it will scale down to starcrafts size(600x400 is it?) and there is nothing to do with it.
If somebody knows a way to forcefully stretch it could work, scaling it fullscreen without it being fullscreen that is.

[delerious010]

Fullscreen aint working for me either.

I'll have a 640x480 fullscreen window taking up my entire 1650x1080 screen .... however scrolling to the edges will reveal the rest of my super-zoomed in desktop.

For the previous poster .. ctrl+alt++ or - to change resolutions to those previously defined in xorg.conf. If it's auto-detecting you're screens resolution, it'll only have the 1 mode to return to.

[elitenoobboy]

There are a couple of hacks out there that can increase SC's resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJPAFCE0F0
I have tried them, and could only get one of them to work, once. After I restarted SC, it would just crash with wine.

Instead of manually changing the entire desktops resolution, you could also try compiz's enhanced desktop zoom plugin. After telling it not to center the screen on the mouse, the scroll would stay inside the window better. Compiz doesn't have input redirection, so making the window bigger isn't possible with it at this time.