Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't think that's quite what Hugo was looking for. I've run in to > his problem myself, particularly with the game Maelstrom. Maelstrom > runs at 640x480. Maximizing the window doesn't change that, you merely > get a full-screen black window with a little 640x480 section in the > center in which the game is displayed. The only way to have the actual > game take up the full screen is to change the display resolution to > 640x480 and move the mouse around until the Maelstrom window is the only > portion of the larger "virtual desktop" that can be seen. > > I don't think there's a better way to do this, as Hugo suspected. If > you could easily move the mouse using script commands, you could > probably write something to parse the output of xwininfo and move the > mouse to a corner of a given window. But this doesn't help the problem > of accidentally moving the mouse outside the window, causing the window > to go flying off your screen as you scroll around your virtual desktop.
You could just run another X server at 640x480 on, say, VC8. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
