How to set default resolution for fullscreen mode

[timcrews]

Hello:

I am running Celestia 1.2.5 under Windows XP, GeForce4 128M.

I have an LCD monitor that only shows 1280x1024, unless you are willing to look at ugly interpolation. So, naturally, I always want Celestia to run at this resolution.

But when I use the -fullscreen option to start Celestia, I always get 640x480, and when I manually switch resolutions to 1280x1024 from this state, the resolution does change, but a mangled version of the task bar shows up and won't go away.

I have searched the forum, and noticed that several people have reported intermittent behavior with their fullscreen resolution. Sometimes Celestia remembers, sometimes it doesn't. But these posts are seven months old.

Does anyone have anything new to report, or maybe some old advice that I missed?

Thanks,

Tim Crews

[Rassilon]

I cant even force fullscreen on startup in XP...One thing I do notice you have to do to get celestia to remember the fullscreen mode you select is set the mode...hit alt enter then file > exit...then restart...when you hit alt enter the fulscreen mode will be remembered...

[chris]

Rassilon,

The fullscreen command line option has changed from -fullscreen to --fullscreen Note the two dashes instead of one; this is the convention used in UNIX for long command line parameters. I'll see about adding a resolution option, so that you can start Celestia like this:

celestia --fullscreen 1024x768

--Chris

[Rassilon]

Thanks chris...

[Vicware]

That would be ideal!

While you're at it, put -w or something like that to
denote Celestia starting up in the current desktop
resolution. If you like.

Vic