Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:50 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Higher-res external monitors under X Message-ID: <20040216105923.T57346-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpwu6mzwlx.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> writes: > > Unless something has changed, as long as you have valid modelines for > > all display devices and resolutions you plan on having X output to, > > ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt-- are your friends. > That only works if the virtual desktop size is at least as large as the > highest physical resolution you want to support. At all other > resolutions you will have to swim around with the mouse, which to put it > plainly sucks. > Of course my Latitude D600 has a 1600x1200 panel, so I don't have this > problem :) If Dell ever gets monitor stands in, I'll get to find out how well the SGI rebranded 21" monitor on my floor handles the 1920X1200 I run X at on the D800. Jamie Bowden --=20 "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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