Re: A must when virtual screen > physical screen

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

If you mean setting virtual screen sizes in the XFree86Config file (or
equivalent), then this is impossible.  That virtual screen code is handled
by hardware panning, and as far as the X clients can tell the screen is
the virtual size.

You can get many of benefits of virtual screens with the window manager's
virtual desktop features (and this uses less video memory, so if your X
server can handle it, that memory can be used to cache offscreen pixmaps).
This will fix up the panel and windows getting placed off screen problem.
As for manual window placement in E, maybe you should post to the E
mailing list about it.

James.

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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, torben fjerdingstad wrote:

> I have my virtual screen bigger than the physical screen.
> With that setup I had 2 serious problems, so I went back
> to fvwm2 with manual placement.
> 
> 1) E open new windows out of my sight so they are difficult
>    to find.
> 
> 2) I have to pan to the bottom of the virtual screen to
>    reach the gnome panel.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 
> 1) E should be able to allow manual placement and eventually
>    place new windows inside the physical screen.
> 
> 2) The gnome panel follows  the physical screen so it always
>    is visible.
> 
> I hope I made my points clear.
> 
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