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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> This list may be too good for its own good... hehe. |
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> Sorry to bring this up here but in fact the behavior I'll describe in |
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> a moment is something I've learned to love from yrs of linux us with |
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> this enabled. Including the last few yrs on gentoo. |
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> |
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> I add this into xorg.conf in one of the display subsections |
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> (at the asterisks): |
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> |
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> Subsection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" |
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> ** Virtual 2048 1536 |
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> ViewPort 0 0 |
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> EndSubsection |
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> |
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> I'm using a 17 inch monitor so that (in X) gives me a 2048x1536 |
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> virtual resolution in each of my virtual desktops. Bigger than my |
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> monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing |
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> to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. Essentially the |
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> limits of the hardware desktop are only a port hole into the bigger |
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> virtual desktop. |
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> It can be very disconcerting to the uninitiated... which is a side |
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> benefit in that it keeps people off my machine. |
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> I use windowsXP a fair bit for video editing (I'm a semi-pro editor |
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> and produce quite a few videos of events) and I find the tools on |
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> linux are too labor and time intensive compared to the adobe tools |
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> available on windows. Even those tools and others like Vegas are hard |
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> to learn and require a lot of time spent in usage to get at all fast |
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> with them. (Please don't bring up one or another of the |
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> available emulations as that still introduces another layer of |
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> complexity) |
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> Anyway cutting to the chase here... given that I need to spend a good |
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> bit of time on windows... I sorely miss my huge virtual desktop. |
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> So wondering if any of you fellow part time windows users know of or |
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> have heard of any kind of application for windows that would allow |
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> such behavior? |
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> ps- I've also asked this question on the main |
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> microsoft.public.windowsXP.bla.bla group. (in case you were thinking |
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> of suggesting that) |
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It's definitely hardware specific. Windows will do this when your |
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desktop resolution is set higher than the highest resolution your |
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monitor supports. Normally, it does not allow you to do that, but it's |
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quite common when hooking up an external display (such as a TV). I |
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think Windows might be smart enough to not allow this on the primary |
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monitor. They consider it a bad thing(tm) and there are even some KB |
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articles telling worried customers how to "fix" the "problem". |
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paul |