Living with a 10" screen, was Re: Display preferences problem

[drew einhorn]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 08:40 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
>
> I have a Lenovo S10 with a tiny 10" 1024x576 screen.
> >
> > Trying to get it working with a 1024x768 lcd projector.
> >
> > I've gotten stuck in mirrored 640x480 and the
> > Display preferences apply/close button is below
> > the bottom of the screen, and I can't change
> > either to a higher usable resolution.
>
>
> To get to the button below the bottom of the screen:
>
> alt+[left click] any where on the offending window.
>
> Your mouse arrow should change to a gripped hand and allow you to move
> the window up and expose the apply/close button.
>
>
It allows me to move left, right, and/or down, when the top of the window
I'm moving
bumps into the bottom of the top panel is stops going up.

Tried making the panels autohide, but they did not behave well for me,
might be some mouse gesture voodoo I'm not understanding.

Is there a way to zoom the display out a bit to get a little more real
estate?


Hmm.  Still have a hangover from the projector hookup attempt.

The projector is no longer connected to the vga output.  I now have only
have one display to
configure:

      Laptop 10"

Unfortunately there is a pale green rectangle with a black outline
containing a 'Laptop 10"'
label covering the upper left corner of the screen, will probably have to
reboot to get it
to go away.

Is there some documentation, a wiki page or something, with hints on Living
with a 10"
screen.

I hate nested scroll bars.

-- 
Drew Einhorn
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