how to convince a mouse that a screen has a diferent size?

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-01-08 17:03 (GMT-0700) Michal Jaegermann composed:

> Maybe somebody knows a reasonable method of convincing a mouse that a
> screen has different dimensions than defaults?

> I have at this moment a specific use case for this.  Namely, after an
> upgrade to F20 I am trying to configure gnome-shell-extension-weather on
> a netbook with 1280x800 screen.  An old configuration is discarded and a
> configuration panel has _required_ elements which extend below a screen
> edge and apparently no keyboard equivalents for needed mouse actions.
> In Gnome2 it was possible to shift a window up beyond screen limits, and
> expose required area, but in a "we know better what is good for you"
> Gnome3 this is a no-no.

I think you may be misplacing blame. Are you aware of this old upstream 
regression?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949
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