Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Stroller wrote: ... Bigger than my monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. ... This is definitely available on Windows using 3rd-party apps. I'm pretty sure that - years ago - Matrox used to offer to install some utility ... it opened a configuration window that offered options like this. I should have said I'm pretty sure that it offered EXACTLY this option. Stroller. Yes, Matrox's drivers for OS/2 also allowed it, there was a hotkey to control zoom, which included panning when not at 100%. Kind of like ctrl-alt-+ in X, but not exactly because OS/2 didn't allow you to change resolutions without rebooting (those were the days).
[gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows
This list may be too good for its own good... hehe. Sorry to bring this up here but in fact the behavior I'll describe in a moment is something I've learned to love from yrs of linux us with this enabled. Including the last few yrs on gentoo. I add this into xorg.conf in one of the display subsections (at the asterisks): Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 #1024x768 800x600 640x480 ** Virtual 2048 1536 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection I'm using a 17 inch monitor so that (in X) gives me a 2048x1536 virtual resolution in each of my virtual desktops. Bigger than my monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. Essentially the limits of the hardware desktop are only a port hole into the bigger virtual desktop. It can be very disconcerting to the uninitiated... which is a side benefit in that it keeps people off my machine. I use windowsXP a fair bit for video editing (I'm a semi-pro editor and produce quite a few videos of events) and I find the tools on linux are too labor and time intensive compared to the adobe tools available on windows. Even those tools and others like Vegas are hard to learn and require a lot of time spent in usage to get at all fast with them. (Please don't bring up one or another of the available emulations as that still introduces another layer of complexity) Anyway cutting to the chase here... given that I need to spend a good bit of time on windows... I sorely miss my huge virtual desktop. So wondering if any of you fellow part time windows users know of or have heard of any kind of application for windows that would allow such behavior? ps- I've also asked this question on the main microsoft.public.windowsXP.bla.bla group. (in case you were thinking of suggesting that)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows
On 31 Jan 2009, at 20:09, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I'm using a 17 inch monitor so that (in X) gives me a 2048x1536 virtual resolution in each of my virtual desktops. Bigger than my monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. Essentially the limits of the hardware desktop are only a port hole into the bigger virtual desktop. This is definitely available on Windows using 3rd-party apps. I'm pretty sure that - years ago - Matrox used to offer to install some utility when you installed their graphics drivers; the utility had a little icon that sat next to the clock, and when you double- clicked on it it opened a configuration window that offered options like this. Nvidia offer some really nice display utilities (or enhanced driver or whatever you want to call it) these days. I would consider their dual-head options worth the price of a graphics card, so I would see if you can try them out somewhere see if it offers this functionality. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows
On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Stroller wrote: ... Bigger than my monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. ... This is definitely available on Windows using 3rd-party apps. I'm pretty sure that - years ago - Matrox used to offer to install some utility ... it opened a configuration window that offered options like this. I should have said I'm pretty sure that it offered EXACTLY this option. Stroller.
