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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] scrollable window
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:57:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050710175757.GA21462@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050710173201.GF31399@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 07:32:01PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > Some, such as myself, still use 800x600.  I do it out of necessity.  I have 
> > poor eyesight and don't have the spare cash (or desk space!) for a 21 inch 
> > monitor.  And LCD monitors tend to have too high a native resolution.  With 
> > my current 17" monitor, I simply can't handle anything beyond 800x600.
> 
> why not use a virtual desktop of larger size and 
> pan the mouse to the current 'view' which can be 800x600
> or even less if your bad eyesight requires that ...
> (on X you can change that with CTRL-ALT-+/- and the
> mouse will be handled properly, including pan ranges)
> 
> best,
> Herbert

That works too. So Herbert, tell us how does one set up a virtual screen
a la X Server style when one is using Windows? Presumably there is some
"powertoy" out there which does this, but I don't know of any myself.

-- 
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-10 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-10  5:58 [Qemu-devel] scrollable window Jim C. Brown
2005-07-10  6:50 ` Ashish Naik
2005-07-10 11:07   ` Ashish Naik
2005-07-10 13:40     ` Jim C. Brown
2005-07-10 15:27       ` user user
2005-07-10 16:16         ` Jim C. Brown
2005-07-10 16:37 ` jeebs
2005-07-10 17:32   ` Herbert Poetzl
2005-07-10 17:57     ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-07-10 18:37       ` Herbert Poetzl
2005-07-10 18:53         ` Jim C. Brown
2005-07-10 20:51           ` Herbert Poetzl
2005-07-10 21:06             ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-07-11  3:41               ` Jim C. Brown
2005-07-10 19:07       ` Jernej Simonèiè
2005-07-10 18:19     ` jeebs
2005-07-10 17:43   ` Jim C. Brown
2005-07-10 18:21     ` jeebs
2005-07-10 20:24       ` Jim C. Brown

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