[SOLVED] Re: xorg virtual / panning question

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Apr 16 15:31:15 UTC 2009


Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 16:05 +0100, psmith wrote:
>>> I now have virtual scrolling/panning on my 1024x600 screen to 1280x1024
>>> whether or not an external display is connected to the VGA port.
>>>
>>> Link here...
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One#xorg.conf
>>>
>>> Oh - this is with Fedora-11-Beta (and current updates) because I believe
>>> the xserver 1.6 and xrandr 1.3 versions are needed to make it work.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> nice work craig!, good to see you finally got it working 8-)
> ----
> thanks Phil - I think that anyone with an Acer Aspire One will
> definitely want this info and Fedora 11 rocks. Breaking the limitations
> of the 1024x600 window is a very important detail.
> 
In another sense, this is valuable because users can now run the physical 
display in a lower resolution and use panning to still have the area they need 
for a reasonable root window.

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