how to display a full WUXGA "test pattern" on the laptop?

[Robert P. J. Day]

almost certainly a dumb question, but i've never tried this before
-- if i have a 1920x1200, say, png file, how can i display it *fully*
on a laptop display, temporarily overriding the menu bars and so on?
thanks.

rday

p.s.  ideally, i guess i'd want to need to press ESC to get back to a
normal desktop.

[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:52 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> almost certainly a dumb question, but i've never tried this before
> -- if i have a 1920x1200, say, png file, how can i display it *fully*
> on a laptop display, temporarily overriding the menu bars and so on?
> thanks.

Many of the Gnome tools will switch to full-screen mode when you press
the F11 key.  You can toggle back to windowed mode by pressing it again,
or the Esc key.

I'm curious what you'd use as a test pattern, and what you would test.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Tim wrote:
> I'm curious what you'd use as a test pattern, and what you would test.

i'll be driving that image file out the DVI port into a projector
that projects a WUXGA image and i want to see how well the projector
handles simple images, all the way up to really "stressful" images,
like alternating white and black pixels.

and if anyone knows where i can grab full WUXGA images/test patterns
out there on the intertoobz, that would be cool.  otherwise, i'll just
gimp up a bunch of them.

rday
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[Markku Kolkka]

Robert P. J. Day kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 9. 
maaliskuuta 2009):
> and if anyone knows where i can grab full WUXGA images/test
> patterns out there on the intertoobz, that would be cool.

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

[stan]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> almost certainly a dumb question, but i've never tried this before
> -- if i have a 1920x1200, say, png file, how can i display it *fully*
> on a laptop display, temporarily overriding the menu bars and so on?
> thanks.
>
> rday
>
> p.s.  ideally, i guess i'd want to need to press ESC to get back to a
> normal desktop.

Install qiv

Then   qiv -m filename   will make it fit the screen.
f will go to full screen.
Finally q will get you out.
b and Shift-b alter brightness.
- and +/= alter size.

[Robert P. J. Day]

yOn Mon, 9 Mar 2009, stan wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > almost certainly a dumb question, but i've never tried this before
> > -- if i have a 1920x1200, say, png file, how can i display it *fully*
> > on a laptop display, temporarily overriding the menu bars and so on?
> > thanks.
> >
> > rday
> >
> > p.s.  ideally, i guess i'd want to need to press ESC to get back to a
> > normal desktop.
>
> Install qiv
>
> Then   qiv -m filename   will make it fit the screen.
> f will go to full screen.
> Finally q will get you out.
> b and Shift-b alter brightness.
> and +/= alter size.

yup, that's what i was after, thanks.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
    Have classroom, will lecture.

http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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