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 1LTMAL-0002kT-37 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:10:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AB3AE02A1; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5997EE02A1 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0E36438C for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.537 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.537 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.062, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BDlPh6nI-kzK for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69545642FA for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTM9e-0005no-Sg for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:26 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:26 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:09:26 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:09:12 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878worjl07.fsf@newsguy.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gnTK3YrLlVWiCTkt38ME7PdQu3o= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4f4062e6-9724-45bb-8794-3464fe4a109a X-Archives-Hash: 5abde5828c471033df7e2d6f54d0efc1 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)