How do I make a virtual desktop larger than actual size?

greatgoogamooga · 03-19-2008, 05:21 PM

I just got an Asus eeepc which has a very _very_ small screen. Max resolution is 800x480 (yes, you read that right). Many windows just plain dont' fit on that desktop and I find "close" buttons and the like are below the taksbar in Xfce or KDE.

I remember way back in the early days, using xvwm and setting up a larger virtual desktop that you could just roll around with your mouse. I gotta figure this is still possible, but I cant' find any info on the web about it. How can I do this in Xorg/xfce/KDE?

TIA

Goog

bathory · 03-21-2008, 04:53 AM

You should combine "Virtual" and "Viewport" in Screen Section of your xorg.conf. Read the man page for more info.

greatgoogamooga · 03-22-2008, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

You should combine "Virtual" and "Viewport" in Screen Section of your xorg.conf. Read the man page for more info.

When you say combine,do you mean just putting n 2 different entries, or is there a way to put these together?

I have tried setting them to:

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "1024x768"
Virtual 2048 2048
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection

with not effect

bathory · 03-22-2008, 09:51 AM

In a normal pc it should work. Perhaps the Asus eeepc video hardware does not support virtual screens.