hi group,

i've got one of these new netbooks and have installed xubuntu on it.
all works fine - despite the small screen is sometimes a pain.

i remember there was a way to set up a "virtual screen" which can be
defined bigger than the physical screen and when you move the mouse
towards the borders of the physical screen it "moves" over the virtual
screen. i've added the line "virtual" in xorg.conf, subsection display
but this didn't to the trick. can anybody give me a hint on how to set
this up?

thanks,
stephan

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:14:58 -0700 (PDT), steph wrote:

> i remember there was a way to set up a "virtual screen" which can be
> defined bigger than the physical screen and when you move the mouse
> towards the borders of the physical screen it "moves" over the virtual
> screen. i've added the line "virtual" in xorg.conf, subsection display
> but this didn't to the trick. can anybody give me a hint on how to set
> this up?

You have to add the desired resolution, as in

Virtual 1280 1024

If that doesn't work, read the Xorg.0.log. Your graphics or the relevant
server may not support the resolution or even virtual screens; for
example, recent versions of the intel server don't (only temporarily I
hope).

Bob T.

On 17 Sep., 13:34, Bob Tennent wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:14:58 -0700 (PDT), steph wrote:
>
> *> i remember there was a way to set up a "virtual screen" which can be
> *> defined bigger than the physical screen and when you move the mouse
> *> towards the borders of the physical screen it "moves" over the virtual
> *> screen. i've added the line "virtual" in xorg.conf, subsection display
> *> but this didn't to the trick. can anybody give me a hint on how to set
> *> this up?
>
> You have to add the desired resolution, as in
>
> * Virtual * 1280 1024
>
> If that doesn't work, read the Xorg.0.log. Your graphics or the relevant
> server may not support the resolution or even virtual screens; for
> example, recent versions of the intel server don't (only temporarily I
> hope).
>
> Bob T.

i thought there might be something else to do. i've added this to
xorg.conf already - but it didn't work. so i'll have to dive into the
log-file.

thanks,
stephan