Well, I can get a mild version of a virtual screen on my Fedora system on the GUI with Ctrl Alt - That's a minus sign after the Alt. The software screen is larger than the area of the monitor's screen and you can view the areas outside of the monitor screen by using the mouse. On the old Slackware distributions you could get a software virtual screen about 50 % larger than the monitor's screen. I found that useful and I miss it since neither Slackware 10, nor Fedora seem to have it. Or maybe I don't know how to activate it. I hope that explains it.
I believe that in your X config you specify a display resolution smaller than your desktop size.
However, most people find this so annoying that most distributions go out of their way to help people by not letting that happen easily. For example, in SUSE 10.1 (which I was just testing the other day), I can only change desktop size, it automatically changes the monitor resolution so it stays in sync with whatever I pick for the desktop.
Never the less I'm sure its still possible by manually editing the X config.
Maybe the original poster was looking for virtual desktops. I use Fluxbox as a manager and the virtual desktops are a menu item as they are in KDE and others I presume. Just a thought. Ian
On 18/05/06, John Lange john.lange@open-it.ca wrote:
I believe that in your X config you specify a display resolution smaller than your desktop size.
However, most people find this so annoying that most distributions go out of their way to help people by not letting that happen easily. For example, in SUSE 10.1 (which I was just testing the other day), I can only change desktop size, it automatically changes the monitor resolution so it stays in sync with whatever I pick for the desktop.
Never the less I'm sure its still possible by manually editing the X config.
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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 20:11 -0500, schwartz wrote:
Well, I can get a mild version of a virtual screen on my Fedora system on the GUI with Ctrl Alt - That's a minus sign after the Alt. The software screen is larger than the area of the monitor's screen and you can view the areas outside of the monitor screen by using the mouse. On the old Slackware distributions you could get a software virtual screen about 50 % larger than the monitor's screen. I found that useful and I miss it since neither Slackware 10, nor Fedora seem to have it. Or maybe I don't know how to activate it. I hope that explains it.
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