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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.

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