Large panning desktop

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Tue Oct 18 00:57:55 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 04:28:14PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Is anyone here running a large panning desktop in X?

My guess would be "no".

> If so could you post your combination of hardware and X related
> settings and versions?

In theory these days you can set it up with xrandr --panning.

In practice I was unable to come with a working example in 15 minutes.
I get a large virtual desktop, but the mouse seems to be limited to the
visible screen area plus one pixel row below it.  Bug?

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
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