Re: [Qemu-devel] scrollable window

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:57:57PM -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> 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.

well, cygwin supports X, which probably gives you
all that and more ...  

actually, never bothered with windows ...

there are a bunch of good solutions for MacOS X too
(like Virtue or DesktopManager)

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