[Feature]: Game mode when playing a game

[evanpaul14]

Describe the solution you'd like

When a game is running turn on Game Mode.

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[YRychkov]

Is that even possible? I think the Game mode is controlled by MacOS

[evanpaul14]

I could've sworn I saw something about Crossover implementing Game Mode support but I can't seem to find it anymore. It might not be possible then, but someone smarter than me will have to comment on that.

[AndersonALAC]

Found somediscussions about this in other games, seems like it’s just a matter of setting the value of LSApplicationCategoryType in Info.plist

[Stooovie]

I don't think that's the case. I tried setting public.app-category.games in the Whiskey app's info.plist in LSApplicationCategoryType, but it didn't enable Game mode.

[Aurther-Nadeem]

You need to change LSApplicationCategoryType when compiling.

[tomsotte]

I see that games are run as wine-preloader, maybe it's not Whisky that should have that flag but the Wine runtime that uses.

[Trebor-Huang]

It seems hard-coded that the game must be in fullscreen. Wine fakes a fullscreen so that must also be tackled with