I have a dual monitor setup on Linux (Fedora 21) with a Radeon card and the open source drivers.

And every f-ing time I start any game for the first time, it goes full-screen and sets my monitors to mirror-mode and does not reset it to 2 seperate screens once the game closes. Every time. Then I have to go hunting on where to disable full-screen.

Now it happened with the dosbox-setup of Star Trek: Judgment Rites and 25th Anniversary. But every game. Every single one that feels it needs to start in full-screen-mode destroys my setup.

Yeah, sometimes they start as borderless fullscreen (Cities: Skylines - of course not from gog) across both screens and then they don't work on 32:9-resolution or calculate mouse cursor position wrong.

How is it in 2015, that nobody is able to not unconfigure a simple dual-screen setup?

Yeah, well, now I have to go hunting on how to not have those ST games not in fullscreen.

Necrothread!


Had this problem too,

after the game, log out straight away and back in, I found at least on my setup this fixed the layout issue.

alternatively install wine then download the windows installers for the dos based games instead of the linux installers, I found doing it this way opened on the right screen

You could setup a keyboard shortcut for reconfiguring your screen setup (with xrandr) to your normal desktop settings, so you can easily fix the state those games leave your desktop in. I know it is not a proper fix, but I guess it is much less annoying that way - you just need to press that key combo after playing the game.

I assume this issue is only resolved with Wayland, because it will allow to manage all screens and windows easily, without Xorg and xrandr magic.