Re: Panel positioning on small screens

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 gnome-list@phred.demon.co.uk wrote:

> I'm running Gnome on my laptop; just upgraded to 1.2, which definitely runs
> faster than whatever version I had before.
> 
> On to my problem: My laptop's screen is 800x600, but I use a virtual
> scrolling screen at 1024x768. I find that this limits the usefulness of all
> those nifty panel applets - most of the time they're off the screen, and I
> have to mouse around to view them. What I really want is to be able to pin
> the panels to the edges of the _screen_ rather than the desktop. Does
> such a mechanism exist? If it doesn't, is it possible? 

If you're using X to give you your virtual desktop then no, not
easily.  It might be possible, but it would be a bit hacky.  You'd need to
get the panel to move every time you scroll, and it'd probably look a bit
crumby.

A better solution would use your Window Managers virtual desktops.  The
downside of this is that they probably won't scroll as smoothly.

Paul