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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: extended screen real estate under xorg (xinerama?)
From:       Kevin Martin <kevintm () ameritech ! net>
Date:       2006-11-30 20:45:49
Message-ID: 456F42FD.1030801 () ameritech ! net
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Thanks to everyone who emailed me with this.  That is exactly what I was looking for.

And how strange is it that there are two of us on this list with the same first and \
last names?!?! (actually, probably not all that strange now that I come to think \
about it)   ;-)

Kevin T. Martin

Kevin E Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:38:31AM -0600, Kevin Martin wrote:
> > Running FC5 with Xorg on an Acer laptop and was wondering if there is a way to \
> > make the screen real estate seem larger (basically be able to have a virtual \
> > screen that is much larger than my physical screen, effectively making my 14" \
> > screen display as a 30" display)?  I've read some about Xinerama but that seems \
> > to be for using multiple screens, not making my tiny screen "virtually" huge.  \
> > The Video card is an ATI X1300 Mobility and I'm running ATI's Linux driver.
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> If you are talking about the ability to pan around the screen, then yes,
> there is a "virtual" option that you can add to your Display subsection
> that will allow you to specify a virtual resolution that is larger than
> your video mode.  For example, to set your video mode to 1024x768 and
> your virtual screen size to 1600x1200, you could do the following:
> 
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device     "Videocard0"
> Monitor    "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth     24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport   0 0
> Depth     24
> Modes    "1024x768"
> Virtual  1600 1200
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Then, when you restart the X server, your monitor will show a 1024x768
> subset of the larger 1600x1200 virtual screen.  You can use the mouse to
> pan that subset across the entire virtual screen.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> PS - Just thought I should answer this one since we share the same first
> and last names :-)
> 


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