[SOLVED] Wine: How to Run a Fullscreen Desktop? or Disable GNOME Pannels?

[Usey User]

Hey Ubuntu Forums!

I've searched plenty of Wine DB and Ubuntu Forum posts and still couldn't figure out how to make Rome: Total War playable (screen-size wise). It runs better than in XP, but I can't find a way to get it into fullscreen.

If I run it WITHOUT a virtual desktop, the keyboard and mouse focus is to the terminal.

If I run it WITH a virtual desktop, the screen is windowed and the bottom few pixels are cut off.

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So is there a way to make RTW run:

1. Without using a virtual desktop and keeping the keyboard & mouse focus on the game

2. With a virtual desktop in fullscreen

3. With a virtual desktop with a way to hide the GNOME Pannels

4. With whatever any of you can think of

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Ubuntu 7.10 Wine 0.9.49
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Thanks in advance and have a happy Thanksgiving (dinner)!

[lovesafron]

If you do not mind will you tell why you need this?

[Usey User]

I want the fullscreen functionality so that the whole game will be visible without title bars or panels showing.

[daniel311]

1. Disable Desktop Effects
2. Run winecfg and disable the virtual desktop, enable "grab mouse" and enable "window manager manages windows"

This helped for some of my games.

[desertboy]

Not perfect solution but I set the panel's to have hide buttons and jut hide the panels before play.

[Usey User]

That fixed it daniel - thanks!

[hero1900]

thanks for the help