I'm currently working on a small panning utility to bring back panning to my eeePC. It has an 800x400 LCD, thus I would *really* like to pan the screen. 400px is not a great amount of usable real estate once menus and statusbars and what-not are on-screen.
With my meagre X abilites, I have crufted up a small program that queries where the pointer is, and shifts the viewport about with XF86VidModeSetViewport to keep the pointer on screen. Seems to work well enough. Except for a niggly problem. I can't set a virtual desktop size bigger than my current 800x400 display. I have "Virtual 1680 1680" on my xorg.conf, but I can't seem to figure out how to enforce that as a root window size regardless of the actual size of my display. On startup, X discards any modes that are bigger than 800x400 as they exceed the panel dimensions, so there's nothing bigger than 800x400 in xrandr's available display modes. At present, I have to create a new higher resolution modeline with xrandr on my (unplugged) VGA output, then activate the VGA output. This then startles X into resizing the desktop to fit the higher resolution, then I have a higher resolution virtual desktop that I can pan around with my laptop's internal 800x400 display. Surely there's a better way than this? I'm hoping I've missed something completely obvious to the seasoned X veteran :-) Cheers, Dave. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
