Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS eee? They list a 800x480 display resolution, and I have encountered Gnome dialogs that require at least 800x600 to see the <OK> button on the bottom of the panel.
Not a fix, but holding down the ALT key on a few window managers will allow moving the window without the title bar being present. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>wrote:> Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS > eee? They list a 800x480 display resolution, and I have encountered > Gnome dialogs that require at least 800x600 to see the <OK> button on > the bottom of the panel. > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090111/cfc71b76/attachment-0004.html>
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:12 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:> Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS > eee? They list a 800x480 display resolution, and I have encountered > Gnome dialogs that require at least 800x600 to see the <OK> button on > the bottom of the panel.Configure a virtual (panning) desktop that is larger than the physical screen. This used to be *very* common back when average display resolutions where much lower and is well supported by X. But I don't think the installers provide this option anymore when configuring X so you might have to play with "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". Something like: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Virtual 1024 768 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection - provides a 1024x768 virtual desktop on a 800x600 display.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS > eee? They list a 800x480 display resolution, and I have encountered > Gnome dialogs that require at least 800x600 to see the <OK> button on > the bottom of the panel.There's also the MatchBox window manager project. The goal is to create a wm for smaller displays (mobile devices, watches, etc.). http://matchbox-project.org/documentation/manual/rational.html I've not used it, but have noticed that Gnome in particular uses lots of screen real-estate versus other WMs.
Anne Wilson wrote:> On Sunday 11 January 2009 13:18:36 Kwan Lowe wrote: > >> Not a fix, but holding down the ALT key on a few window managers will allow >> moving the window without the title bar being present. >> >> > Also, if you are running a distrubution with KDE4, there is 'laptop' theme > that minimises decorations and gives you the greates possible display space. > Oddly enough, I find that I can reduce the fonts and still read with much > greater comfort than I would have expected at that size. > > All these help, but you do still need the Alt+grab and move a window, > sometimes.OK, got the Alt+grab. Learned something new today. Though I am going to work on the Virtual settings as well...