lubuntu and newrez in netbook screen

[WANG, Xiaoyun]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:07:35 +0800
> "WANG, Xiaoyun" <arsnova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I just realized that lubuntu maillist has a new address, so here is my
> > question to the new list.
> >
> > I was desperate to increase the screen resolution of my netbook(1024*600)
> > so I gave newrez a try under lubuntu. I ran the script newrez and
> increased
> > the resolution to 1280*750. The screen display seemed ok though a bit
> > blurry, but my mouse was still confined in the original 1024*600 area so
> it
> > could not reach the increased part of the screen, which made the increase
> > of resolution useless.
> >
> > Have you used newrez under lubuntu and did you encountered the same
> issue?
> > Is there a workaround for this problem. I think newrez is a great
> > enhancement for lubuntu in netbook as long as it can work. Thanks in
> > advance.
> >
> I think this is the relevant bit 'Newrez is a nautilus script...'.
>  Lubuntu doesn't use Nautilus, so I doubt it will work as intended.
>
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Hello, Yorvrk,

Thank you for your comment. However, I did some more study and I have to
disagree with you.

I checked the newrez script and it seemed to me that the nautilus relevant
part is probably just for creating a gnome panel launcher. The core command
of the script seems to be the following line:
xrandr --fb $H"x"$V --output $device --scale $scale"x"$scale

So I executed the command directly in the terminal with a scale of 1.25
over the default resolution:
xrandr --fb 1280x750 --output LVDS1 --scale 1.25x1.25

The result was still the same. The mouse could only be moved inside the
original 1024*600 area, but not to the extra area increase by this command.
Is it still related to nautilus? I don't think so.

-- 
WANG, Xiaoyun
Shanghai, China
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