Marco Peereboom wrote:
You want to play with the regions and set them up to be the right size
instead of auto-detecting them
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:42:49PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
Ok, I was glad to see an update to scrotwm, hoping it would fix a
problem I have with dialog boxes.
Didn't, and now I realize it couldn't!
Problem is on my end.
I have two CRT monitors. One is excellent, the other is kind of crappy
but nice to have.
Good one happily supports 1600 or higher resolutions and works happily
with xrandr. I use 1600x1200 85hz refresh
Other one won't support a good refresh rate at 1600.
Was using it at 1280 x something, but now using it at 1024x768, due to
age effects.
Dialog boxes open just fine in the crappy monitor, but when I use good
monitor, dialog boxes open split across virtual area, into both monitors.
However, I just figured out that since my virtual screen is 3200 2400
(from xorg.conf) there is a piece of unviewable space under smaller
visible screen.
Part of dialog box is "lost" there. I often work with both screens at
same time, so swapping screens just for dialog boxes will not be a good
solution.
Very tired of dragging every box into view.
Neal was right about virtual screen being too big (since I changed one
monitor's resolution smaller)
I changed it to 2624 x 1968.
But this didn't help, anyway.
I played with region some, but I still can't figure out a setting that
works.
I work in 1600x1200 in front of me.
Small dialog boxes open completely, but a little too low in left screen.
Larger boxes cross into both screens, but also too low.
Thanks
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