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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Xwindows Virtual Desktop Size
- Message-ID: <C19IEw.9D2@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <19879@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan22.023830.21726@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:44:55 GMT
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- In article <19879@mindlink.bc.ca> Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior) writes:
- >I was at a local computer fair recently and saw a display of 486's running (I
- >beleive) SCO Unix and Xwindows. The neat thing was, as you moved the mouse
- >pointer 'past' the limits of the screen, the whole picture would scroll to
- >follow it. It was like having twice the space, but using a small window to
- >scroll around on it. Can this be implimented in Xfree? I looked in all of
- >the docs that I have and couldn't find anything...
-
- Yes XFree does this. I have a 1024x1024 virtual screen on my machine
- at home, even though the screen itself can only display 1024x780. If I move
- the mouse up to the top or the bottom, the screen automatically scrolls up or
- down.
-
- -Eric
- --
- A host is a host from coast to coast.....eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- Unless the host (that isn't close).................................
- is busy, hung or dead................................Eric Youngdale
-