From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU2WC-00009s-Ux for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:23:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9351AE0503; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6045EE0503 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so581585yxp.46 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:23:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3m1Xjoz/AQRp5ageqLCH3Ip9g+4E8/KVBq9xdD3CLNo=; b=qESsV7K5Sef0nxInFrmh49hgC1QSwYSslv+IFuaYldc1w1hJvZIxBrsEgXFs5pSi7/ 2xHZdGJgGp01TM3ZPhfIbbDt0xHc7BGF/0jxpWjLWEBV618ciiZvZrx3ad4BbV6TSaI+ 2u0hh8gPVCI70EXAqf6JGaAdYiaRlsB4JB644= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=R3n2ssXVMsfYE06EudmR7vMGyr1Og3PbM0DBHwgzc2cWflr3yvcFQ19aItpc4KzJoz YMSAG5fR/U+ic+brlE0A5yQKhE/6gqerPZL4zaCVcoNMUPOXFsjOBAkTyiZcMhcJM3Up oF9bDzHaJaFBTsRhdqBEH0ntwiy+00cR++WQE= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.103.2 with SMTP id f2mr1112735ybm.201.1233595411087; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:23:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <878worjl07.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <878worjl07.fsf@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:23:31 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 19b7f5ce2cc46e66 Message-ID: <58965d8a0902020923v6721213cheb4df85ef6e3208@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d4ff0f19-8cff-4ef4-80e3-9bc1b55b2632 X-Archives-Hash: 368caebb09619dd8d1733b2471c0a977 On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > 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 > ViewPort 0 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) It's definitely hardware specific. Windows will do this when your desktop resolution is set higher than the highest resolution your monitor supports. Normally, it does not allow you to do that, but it's quite common when hooking up an external display (such as a TV). I think Windows might be smart enough to not allow this on the primary monitor. They consider it a bad thing(tm) and there are even some KB articles telling worried customers how to "fix" the "problem". paul