[Wine] zooming wine windows?
Ákos Maróy
darkeye at tyrell.hu
Wed Jul 11 08:50:47 CDT 2007
L. Rahyen wrote:
> Resizing of pixels is the problem of your video card or monitor and
> completely unrelated to WINE.
> What I do when I want good and smooth picture in such cases: I use full
> screen mode with stretching and even 640x480 looks very nice on my main
> display with native resolution 1680x1050 (this is the default for most TFT
> monitors and done automatically).
> If I want to use both the application (or game) with low resolution and other
> programs simultaneously on one display (very rare actually because I have two
> monitors) then I do one of the following: I'm using Ctrl+Alt+NumPad_Plus or
> Ctrl+Alt+NumPad_Minus to switch to the resolution I like to get necessary
> magnification; it is also possible to use settings of the KDE (and maybe
> GNOME) desktop to switch real desktop resolution.
> If you have ancient CRT monitor then low resolutions will look very bad on
> it. Solution for this problem is to set proper settings in the xorg.conf so
> your video card will give double resolution for very low video modes for your
> monitor so for example 640x480 will be as good as 1280x960. Of course this
> isn't necessary for modern TFT displays because they can do much better
> smooth stretching.
I understand what you're saying, and I'm aware of these solutions. They
unfortuantely don't really work for me as:
- doing Ctrl-Alt-+ will hide most of the desktop
- running on full-size in another monitor beats the prupose of running
in multiple windows..
Akos
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