From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:24:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0902020924x6d3d466btfe9ccfc90988eea1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1F7133FF-8ADB-47CA-AA71-60D912C5B246@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> ... 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. ...
>>
>> This is definitely available on Windows using 3rd-party apps.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that - years ago - Matrox used to offer to install some
>> utility ... it opened a configuration window that offered options like this.
>
> I should have said I'm pretty sure that it offered EXACTLY this option.
>
> Stroller.
Yes, Matrox's drivers for OS/2 also allowed it, there was a hotkey to
control zoom, which included panning when not at 100%. Kind of like
ctrl-alt-+ in X, but not exactly because OS/2 didn't allow you to
change resolutions without rebooting (those were the days).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-02 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-31 20:09 [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows Harry Putnam
2009-01-31 21:10 ` Stroller
2009-01-31 21:23 ` Stroller
2009-02-02 17:24 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2009-02-02 17:23 ` Paul Hartman
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