2 was.3 to be safe) xrandr then gives us our Starcraft resolution.

After a brief pause (.1 wasn't long enough. The PID of the python process that created it is saved for later. You can edit window.resize(width,height) to whatever you want, having it be at least 884x510. It only needs to be large enough to cover the 854×480 of your fullscreen 480p resolution, but I make it large enough to cover my 2560x1440 monitor to hide some of the xrandr transitions. So the script above uses python to create a fullscreen black window (the lines between the EOFs are python, see ).

The right side unfortunately shows stuff from your desktop (wallpaper, open windows) rather than blacking things out like the left side does. Xrandr -output $vga -auto -panning 0x0 -scale 1x1Įxplanation: xrandr -output $vga -mode 640x480 -panning 640x480 -transform 1.33333333,0,-107,0,1,0,0,0,1 places your fullscreen 640x480 window in the center of your monitor, pillarboxed.