Wine games in Kubuntu Intrepid

[Jonas Norlander]

Hi

Some nice tricks with xorg and serverlayout that perhaps will help
others so I post them here.

I have a two monitor setup on my nvidia card, one 19" and one 17". In
Hardy playing games (Warcraft 3) with wine worked fine but after I
haved installed Intrepid I noticed that the game/wine want grab the
mouse at the edges to my second monitor so it makes it hard to scroll
in the game with the mouse. And Desktop effects don't play well with
changing monitor layout/resolution.

One solution was to use nvidia-settings tool to deactivate the second
monitor and then deactivate the Desktop effects but this mess up the
desktop and after the game I have to logout, restart X and login
again.
So I was thinking why not add a new ServerLayout just for games in
xorg.conf where the second monitor is disabled and with no desktop
environment, just the game or a plain window manager?

After some reading and testing i came up with this.

The relevant sections from my xorg.conf. Of course you can add other options.
#######################################
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "GameLayout"
        Screen 0        "GameScreen" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "GameScreen"
        Monitor         "SyncMaster975MB
        Device          "GameVideoDevice"
        DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "SyncMaster957MB"
EndSectio

Section "Device"
        Identifier     "GameVideoDevice"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        Option         "TwinView"      "0"
        Option         "ConnectedMonitor"      "CRT-0"
EndSection
#######################################

To be able to start a X you must change "allowed_users=console" in
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to "allowed_users=anybody".
You should now be able to start the new layout with a command like "X
:1 -layout GameLayout" and switch between the layouts with the
CTRL-ALT-Fx keys. To start a program in the new layout from the old
start them like this "DISPLAY=:1 xterm".

To be able to use sounds you must add yourself to the audio group. All
this I am sure could be wrapped up in a script that will start X and
your programs and added to the menu for easy access.

Any suggestions or improvements please post them.

/ Jonas