Win95 and Win98 can do it. Re: Question about screen size in X and questions about Netscape

[Christopher Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net>]

Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:21:47PM +0200, Nico Fritschi wrote:
> > when i change my screen resolution to a lower one i always get a screen
> > which is not fixed, this means I can scroll it around and i can't see
> > the whole screen. Is it possible to change that?
> 
> What do you want to change?
> 
> You want to see the whole screen after changing resolution to lower one?
> No way. You cannot put e.g. 1024 points in 640 :)

When I was using Windows 95 I downloaded the "power toy" quickres and I
was able to switch between multiple color depths and resolutions on the
fly and all the windows would properly resize themselves. If I was using
1600x1200 and with Netscape maximised on screen and came to a web page
with a lot of fine print, I could just quickres to 1280x1024 and
Netscape would automatically be maximised on screen. You don't need to
cram 1024 points into 640, you just need the mode switching in X up to
Windows 95 standards for God's sake so that it is intelligent enough to
resize windows for you.




> 
> You want fixed screen after resolution change?
> Comment "Virtual" statements in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> 
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> Alexey Vyskubov
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