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Force a Wine Virtual Desktop Size?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi there! I recently downloaded an old game, Dune 2000, that I used to play when I was a kid off Abandonia.com and tried to play it in Wine. The mouse sometimes gets tricky when scrolling around the map, so the workaround that I employ is to run it in a virtual desktop, as suggested by heading 7.8 on the Wine FAQ's : http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ However, the game runs at a resolution of 640x480, which is way too small for my modern screen. I would like to run it at 800x600 or 1024x768, but I am unable to force that size. It always resizes the virtual desktop to 640x480 as soon as the game (Hardware)

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