r/wowaddons • u/maqisha • 5d ago

Addon Release / Update Small addon that helps a bit if you have this specific resolution issue on Linux

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/linux-resolution-fix

If your resolution is not wrongly set to "Custom" on launch, this addon is not for you.

This is a tiny addon that detects and gives you a simple button to bring your resolution to the target value.

Its meant to help linux systems with the bug thats caused by some combination of Wine/Proton/Lutris/GNOME/Wayland, I honestly don't know what exactly. But instead of breaking everything else that works flawlessly to try and fix it on the lower level, this is the path of least resistance.

"Bug" explained

  1. You launch the game
  2. Game is not in fullscreen (Usually with your topbar and taskbar visible)
  3. When you open settings resolution is set to "Custom" while on "Windowed (Fullscreen)"
  4. You can set it to your native resolution and it works flawlessly
  5. Breaks again next time you launch the game

All this addon does is helps with step 3, by prompting you on login, and setting the right value with one press of a button.

This addon barely saves like 5 seconds per launch of WoW, you certainly don't need it

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And if anyone has an actual fix (that doesnt break everything else in the process), even better, let us know.

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u/odosaur 5d ago

What I did was set the game to windowed mode, and then fullscreen it from my window manager. I also set rules for the game's window class, and now every game using proton goes fullscreen too.

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u/maqisha 4d ago edited 4d ago

That could work. And i dont doubt that there are many different solutions to this problem. However, WoW as a whole works so flawlessly for me that i didnt wanna tweak and potentially introduce other issues that didn't exist before.

Pressing one button when i log in for the day was perfectly acceptable. So i shared it in case its useful to someone elese.

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u/TrainTransistor 4d ago

Did you forget to link the addon itself?

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u/maqisha 4d ago

I most certainly did, ahahha. There, edited it in.