On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 10:54 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:12 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS eee? They list a 800x480 display resolution, and I have encountered Gnome dialogs that require at least 800x600 to see the <OK> button on the bottom of the panel.
Configure a virtual (panning) desktop that is larger than the physical screen. This used to be *very* common back when average display resolutions where much lower and is well supported by X. But I don't think the installers provide this option anymore when configuring X so you might have to play with "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Something like:
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Virtual 1024 768 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection
- provides a 1024x768 virtual desktop on a 800x600 display.
---- agreed - I always have done something similar with my Sony Picturebook C1X which apparently has finally bitten the dust.
The thing that I found though is that if you can only get 800 pixels across, I might just go with an 800x600 virtual so that the only slide was vertical because going virtual in both the X and Y axis might prove unnerving and would be more awkward to get accustomed to.
Craig