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Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:57 pm**

http://ynea.futureware.at/cgi-bin/infinite_screen.pl

Download that, open the application, under the main tab delete the activation keys for the first scroll type (mouse, moving on screen egdes 1d) then click on the special modes tab and select the finite option.

This will not fit the game to your screen, but it will allow you to scroll the game screen around by mousing to the edges of it, allowing you to see the entire game screen though not all at once.

To some this may be unacceptable, and the only alternative if this is the case is to wait for either the devs or mods to address the resolution issue.

If you can overlook the annoyance of having to scroll around to see the whole game screen, then this fix will allow you to play FTL on your tiny netbooks!

Enjoy

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:34 pm**

I posted this in another thread, but since this one seems dedicated I figured I'd repost. Also I actually wrote out useful code, haha.

xrandr can be used on linux to simulate a bigger desktop size. It's bugged in ubuntu right now, and I think it's limited to what your hardware can handle, but it does work.

Example:

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --rate 60 --mode 1024x600 --fb 1024x600 --panning 1024x600 --scale 1x1

This is my base lcd screen, but you can change the scaling ratios to scale a bigger desktop, or you can change the panning and fb values to pan around.

Scale to 1280x720:

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --rate 60 --mode 1024x600 --fb 1024x600 --panning 1024x600 --scale 1.25x1.2

Pan in 1280x720:

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --rate 60 --mode 1024x600 --fb 1280x720 --panning 1280x720 --scale 1x1

fb is the virutal size of the desktop, panning is the area you can pan in, and the scaling factor is what the virtual will scale to.

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:34 am**

If you enable the beta update in the steam settings, it fixes the issue I had and lets me play at 1024x768 properly.

Posted: **Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:40 am**

Yeah, so my netbook runs fun on fullscreen-stretched. But not everyone's will. That's what this thread is for.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:35 pm**

xrandr works great in most applications for me. Unfortunately I have the GOG version of the game and didn't buy it directly from the site so I have no linux version. The game runs fine in wine, but xrandr limits the area that my cursor will go to my netbooks 1024x600 area so I can't play the game. The cursor is fine when FTL isn't running. I'd rebuy the game to get the native linux version, but I don't know if that would work any better than running it in wine on my netbook.

Hopefully GOG will follow Steam and add Linux support after their recent Mac expansion.

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