screen resolution 1360x768 ; full screen games open as 1024x768 on the left of the screen! ? how can i overcome this problem

[XOR]

screen resolution 1360x768 ; full screen games open as 1024x768 on the left of the screen! ? how can i overcome this problem

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

On 1/19/22 15:09, XOR wrote:
> screen resolution 1360x768 ; full screen games open as 1024x768 on the
> left of the screen! ? how can i overcome this problem

This does not seem related to Window Maker, fullscreen games work fine
here regardless of resolution. It sounds like a game configuration
problem. If you are using Wine it may also be an issue with that.

One workaround i use to solve this (and avoid games taking over X in
general, so i can Alt+Tab, etc) is Gamescope:

https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope

(you can also use https://github.com/badsectoracula/gamescope/ which is
my own version that i have added a few minor features which i'm waiting
for them to merge, but it is a few commits behind the official one)

Gamescope runs an XWayland server under a Wayland server inside a X
window and you can make use whatever resolution you want and scale the
output at whatever size you want with or without filtering. The site has
instructions on how to use it. However you need to compile it from
source code - there is no official binary (but some distributions do
provide one anyway).

The only annoyance is that under X there is a bit of mouse input lag -
it is only minor but still noticeable. You can also run it without X via
a pure Linux terminal (it uses KMS directly), but i haven't really
tested it much myself like that.

Kostas