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.
Not a fix, but holding down the ALT key on a few window managers will allow moving the window without the title bar being present.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.comwrote:
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.
On Sunday 11 January 2009 13:18:36 Kwan Lowe wrote:
Not a fix, but holding down the ALT key on a few window managers will allow moving the window without the title bar being present.
Also, if you are running a distrubution with KDE4, there is 'laptop' theme that minimises decorations and gives you the greates possible display space. Oddly enough, I find that I can reduce the fonts and still read with much greater comfort than I would have expected at that size.
All these help, but you do still need the Alt+grab and move a window, sometimes.
Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 11 January 2009 13:18:36 Kwan Lowe wrote:
Not a fix, but holding down the ALT key on a few window managers will allow moving the window without the title bar being present.
Also, if you are running a distrubution with KDE4, there is 'laptop' theme that minimises decorations and gives you the greates possible display space. Oddly enough, I find that I can reduce the fonts and still read with much greater comfort than I would have expected at that size.
All these help, but you do still need the Alt+grab and move a window, sometimes.
OK, got the Alt+grab. Learned something new today.
Though I am going to work on the Virtual settings as well...
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.
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
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com 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.
There's also the MatchBox window manager project. The goal is to create a wm for smaller displays (mobile devices, watches, etc.).
http://matchbox-project.org/documentation/manual/rational.html
I've not used it, but have noticed that Gnome in particular uses lots of screen real-estate versus other WMs.
I've not used it, but have noticed that Gnome in particular uses lots of screen real-estate versus other WMs.
"GNOME" is not a window manager. The real-estate required by various applications and dialogs won't change by switching window managers; all window managers do is decorate windows.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
I've not used it, but have noticed that Gnome in particular uses lots of screen real-estate versus other WMs.
"GNOME" is not a window manager. The real-estate required by various applications and dialogs won't change by switching window managers; all window managers do is decorate windows.
Educate yourself: http://tuxtraining.com/2008/12/20/how-to-best-utilize-screen-real-estate-in-...
Window managers do a lot more than decorate windows. The toolbars, the icon sets, the layout and placement of widgets "brands" the particular window manager. And sure, if you want to be pedantic, the Gnome desktop is more than the window manager.
Since this is a CentOS list, compare the default "Gnome" desktop (i.e., choose Gnome from the display manager) and the default setting has a couple toolbars, large window decorations, large fonts, etc.. On my 24" monitor it won't make much difference, but on my 1280x800 laptop it's wasteful.
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