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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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I add this into xorg.conf in one of the display subsections |
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(at the asterisks): |
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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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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) |