Top bar still shows in fullscreen wine games

[Chris Hardee]

Trying to play an AGS game fullscreen, in Ubuntu 12.04 beta. The AGS game uses a tiny resolution 640x400 which may be an issue (?), but when I launch the game the top menu bar along with date and other icons remain at the top and clicking the application and such doesn't help.

I've tried to emulate a virtual desktop, but this led to mouse issues where I couldn't move my mouse.

I can play the game fine when it's not fullscreen, but due to the low resolution it's difficult to play.

Lastly, I tried logging into gnome-fallback with no effects but the result was the same.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: wine 1.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 28 00:07:59 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine1.4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Did you try setting the "Legacy Fullscreen Support" for compiz with the compizconfig-settings-manager? It's under Utility -> Workarounds.

[Chris Hardee (shazzner)]

Tried that just now, instead I get the, same size as the top bar, blank area showing my desktop background.

[Chris Hardee (shazzner)]

Fixed this with:

Configure Wine > Graphics and uncheck "Allow window manager to control the windows"

[Atul (atulkakrana)]

Hello,

I tried both the workarounds i.e 'Legacy fulscreen support' as well as unchecking 'Allow window manager to control window' but I still get menu bar with wine. Any more suggestions?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mohamed Yousof (muhamed-yousof)]

I found solution for Need for speed most wanted
it depends on making your screen resolution same as the game one in its options, for example if you made NFS resolution to be 1024 x 768 you have to set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768 before running the game
and to make the process easy and handy I made a .sh file do it all, it adjusts screen to 1024 x 768 and runs the game with wine and wait for game to close and once it closed the batch returned the screen resolution to my default one 1366 x 768 and it worked as a charm, here under bash file code
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#!/bin/bash
xrandr -s 1024x768
wine full path/speed.exe (full path is your game's path)
wait
xrandr -s 1366x768
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don't forget to make the bash file executable with the command " chmod +x file.sh "

hope it helps
enjoy