xfce-4.1.91 & Virtual screen

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Nov 6 10:32:08 CET 2004


On 11/06/04 09:55, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> >Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:28 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> >>
> >>>Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Ok, I see this too. When starting up the screen is definitely using 
> >>>>the virtual size (splash screen is centered on the big screen), but 
> >>>>the environment has started, the virtual screen seems to be gone.
> >>>>
> >>>>Olivier, any ideas?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I think its the display plugin, that causes this problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Oh yeah, definitely...
> >
> >
> >The question is: How can we handle this gracefully? Detect whether the 
> >user has setup setup a virtual screen size larger than the real size and 
> >if so, disable the resolution switching?
> 
> Just a thought, could we add a 'Default' option to the dialog, where we 
> don't set resolution, but just use what X gives us?

sounds like a good idea, though i'm not the best to give an opinion, as
i've never mucked about with the display plugin's code.

	-b



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