Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 05 May 2012 14:29:09 +0100, Brian wrote:

> 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...).

(...)

> 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

Ouch :-(

That renders many of the GNOME programs completely unusable for devices 
with low resolutions (I can cope with an extended virtual desktop but if 
that neither works...). Hope the patch mentioned there comes soon to 
wheezy.

Thanks for the pointer.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón