Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks
On Sat 05 May 2012 at 11:55:03 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> In my intent to make my netbook more usable (because I can barely use
> some applications such the recently available Pan), I'm trying to get a
> virtual screen (panning) that allows me to configure some applications
> that fail to display the usual bottom buttons (Cancel, Apply, Accept...).
>
> So to get the extra space, I run:
>
> xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --fb 1024x768 --panning 1024x768
>
> Which returns nothing (meaning a success command) and I can see the
> display has been somehow "cutted" at the bottom but I can't move the
> mouse cursor beyond the bottom edge so the controlable area is still
> 1024x600.
The last time this came up on the List I had a play with --panning and
xrandr. The result you have got sounds similar to what I experienced.
You are not alone either:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949
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