Mc Digest, Vol 52, Issue 7

[Keith Roberts]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, MK wrote:

> To: mc at gnome.org
> From: MK <halfcountplus at intergate.com>
> Subject: Re: Mc Digest, Vol 52, Issue 7
> 
> chris glur asked:
>> What's 'virtual viewport' ?
>> I liked fvwm2 but as time goes on I've found extra utility from KDE.
>
> You would have a couple of lines in xorg.conf like these
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier "Screen0"
>       Device     "Videocard0"
>       DefaultDepth     24
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Virtual 1600 1200	<-
>               Viewport  0 0		<-
>               Depth     24
>       EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Meaning my desktop is bigger than my physical screen (which is 1200 x 
> 768), and you slide around.  For some reason the big new suites like 
> gnome and KDE won't permit it.  I can't stand anything that doesn't rely 
> on pure text file configuration.

This is one of my favourite features on KDE.

Currently on Fedora 8 I have the following virtual viewport 
setup:

Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device     "Videocard0"
         DefaultDepth     24
   SubSection "Display"
     Viewport   0 0
     Depth     24
     Virtual 800 1800
   EndSubSection
EndSection

The above settings give me a virtual screen size that is 
almost 3 times the height of my display's physical size.

This means I can resize my browser windows or PDF viewers to 
give me a window that will almost completely fill my monitor 
with a document that does not take up screen real estate 
with menu bars along the top or bottom of the screen.

Installing Fedora 9 and KDE will not allow me to setup a 
virtual viewport at all. I find this really restricting.

Is there some workaround to continue to use virtual 
viewports on KDE, or can I use another desktop application 
that still supports using KDE apps and the virtual viewport 
definitions I have setup?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

PS: It appears that KDE seems to send to the swap partition 
the desktops that are not in focus. So this means that the 
active desktop is the one that gets swapped back into 
computer RAM.

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