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I've recently had to switch even my Windows 3.1 Dosbox guest to Dosbox-X. I was getting weird display glitches even just loading Windows 3.1, not even any of the games yet.

I've come across some very useful settings that I want to use for any DOSBox-X instances.

[sdl]
# Capture the mouse
autolock  = true
# Hide the KRNL386 garbage data in the titlebar
showbasic = false
[dosbox]
# Show this in the titlebar
title     = win31games
[render]
# Keep the 4:3 aspect ratio at all times, which makes full-screening the application still look nice.
aspect    = true

On a Devuan system, the useful document files are these.

• /usr/share/dosbox-x/dosbox-x.reference.conf
• /usr/share/dosbox-x/dosbox-x.reference.full.conf