Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/10/11 15:07, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: [...] I thought fonts were to be found at: /usr/share/fonts/ Mine are there: They are... other possible locations include:- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/local/share/fonts

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: [...] I thought fonts were to be found at: /usr/share/fonts/ Mine are there: They are... other possible locations include:- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/local/share/fonts /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
searching through lots of posts in order to patch together all the needed information. I'm not sure what problem you are having with threading. This is wrestling with xrandr, you started with a thread called virtual resolution of desktop snipped [...] What Debian release are you running

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 03:09:24PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:47:26 Harry Putnam wrote: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid (Installed from new 11.4 install disc (the small one)) 11.4??? Wheezy hasn't got a number yet, and

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:47:26 -0500, Harry wrote in message 87sjncogs1@newsguy.com: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: NOTE: Correction to monitor native resolution posted in OP Native resolution: 1920 x 1200 (I previously said 1900x1280) ..you wanna try it at the

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-03 Thread Harry Putnam
. This is wrestling with xrandr, you started with a thread called virtual resolution of desktop Exactly. The other thread was about Virtual resolution in general. This thread is about xrandr specifically. Hence the subject line. [...] snipped, thanks for the many useful points. You have gone

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/10/11 11:29, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: snipped if you get error codes please post - if screen refreshes (without printing errors) but doesn't seem to pan, try Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- xrandr --output default --dryrun --mode 1440x900 --panning

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, [...] What Debian release are you running? $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid OK. You must be mixing sources (hopefully with judicious pinning). Are you sure? $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l And I definitely do not have any packages installed

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: NOTE: Correction to monitor native resolution posted in OP Native resolution: 1920 x 1200 (I previously said 1900x1280) [...] What Debian release are you running? $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid (Installed from new 11.4

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-01 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:47:26 Harry Putnam wrote: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid (Installed from new 11.4 install disc (the small one)) 11.4??? Wheezy hasn't got a number yet, and Squeeze is 6.0. So do you in fact mean Ubuntu? And if so, where does the wheezy/sid come from? Or am I

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:47:26 Harry Putnam wrote: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid (Installed from new 11.4 install disc (the small one)) 11.4??? Wheezy hasn't got a number yet, and Squeeze is 6.0. So do you in fact mean Ubuntu? And if so, where does

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/10/11 01:47, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: NOTE: Correction to monitor native resolution posted in OP Native resolution: 1920 x 1200 (I previously said 1900x1280) Thanks. It would be appreciated, greatly, if you could use Reply to continue

wrestling with xrandr

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I've spent a couple of fun hours trying to understand how xrandr works. How to come up with a command that will do what I want done. Its quite a complex tool and there are volumes written about how to use it. Even some examples in the manpage. However... I have not understood very much of it.

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/10/11 07:54, Harry Putnam wrote: snipped My objective is to have a panning desktop. That is, a size that is larger than my monitor by a fair bit. After tinkering exessively, I'm no nearer to having that panning desktop than before, although I've created some interesting setups and