Late Night PC Service

There are a couple things I've done to tweak World of Warcraft on my Linux box. I run OpenSuse 10.3 now but most of this will be the same for other distros, especially if you use KDE. These are just specific to what worked for me but I guess that some other Linux WoW players might benefit from the same settings. First off I lost the ability to do a quick self-cast. Self-cast is done by just holding alt while clicking the icon for a spell. So, as a mage, every half-hour I want to self-cast Arcane Intellect. That's no big deal since it's not in combat. Remove Lesser Curse is a bigger problem. The second fastest way to use that is with a shortcut key or click followed by F1 (which also targets your own character). I thought the problem was because of some multi-language keyboard customization I had done but as it turns out it was a setting in KDE for moving windows by holding the Alt-key. To turn this off just follow the steps here - I included pictures, click each to get a bigger image. 1.In KDE, choose Personal Settings (Configure Desktop) from your system menu. 5294 2. Pick Desktop on the left side then Window Behavior. In the tabs across the top pick Window Actions. The default Window Actions settings have a few options turned on so that you can hold alt and click inside a window to move that window. I've never used this feature except in the five minutes after I found out about it. 5297 3. I just turned off all the Inner Window, Titlebar and Frame actions by setting the drop-down choice to "Nothing". 5300 The second tweak, and I think this made a big performance improvement in my case, was to set Wine up to run inside a single window. World of Warcraft still thinks it's running full-screen but it's running in the full area that Wine provides. To configure options for Wine, go to a console and run winecfg. The option I turned on is called "Emulate a Virtual Desktop" option and it's on the Graphics tab. My screen resolution is at 1280x1024 but I gave Wine a window of 1024x768. The performance seems much better now, especially when switching from WoW to a browser or another application. 5303