Ubuntu – How to run the Wine virtual desktop fullscreen

I'm not sure how closely these points represent the plans for Unity on the desktop.

That blueprint (or "blueprint entry", since there's no actual specification linked) does not represent the actual plans for Unity. It wasn't registered by people working on or planning Unity; it was registered by a community member as a proposal for the discussion of his idea at UDS, and since what it proposed overlapped largely with what the Unity people at Canonical were already planning internally and were about to announce at UDS, it was set as approved for discussion. As such, and as you noted, some of the terminology is off.

To get an idea as to what the plans precisely are, I suggest waiting for the actual blueprints to solidify and get approved in the coming week or two, and keeping an eye on design.canonical.com. If you're impatient, poking around the Gobby documents might also reveal some hints, and you can always ask around on IRC and the mailing lists.

Yeah I've had several moments like this. There aren't many options to be frank and none of them are ideal.

• Run the game in windowed mode (inside the virtual desktop) and run the desktop at full resolution. It will become full-screen (over the bars) and then you can get the game window as big as you can. Not all games allow this but it's leaps and bounds more simple than the rest of the options.

• Hack compiz so it targets your Wine window for fullscreen mode (doesn't always work if the application changes resolution after loading)

• Run the game in a separate X server instance. Arguably better performance because Compiz isn't compositing the window.

• Use KDE. Kwin (the window manager) can force windows to become always-on-top and drop their borders at the same time. This has certainly simplified things for me but it's a big emotional investment.