compress screen

[jgengler]

Hi!

I have a Classmate Pc fine little notebook with Debian Etch installed on it and everything works ok. But the screen of it has a non standard resolution of 800 x 400 and many windows (for example k3b) are bigger than the screen so I can't click on several buttons.

I would like the system to beleive that ut is working with a 800 x 600 resolution and then I install a software that somehow SHRINKS the screen to the real size. I don't care to get very small letters.

Thanks for any help,

Joe

[GNU-Fan]

Hello,

maybe you want to try the
Virtual xdim ydim
option in the xorg.conf.

It does not squeeze the picture, but automatically scrolls the screen when the mouse moves to that edge. There may be ways to squeeze it, for example with Compiz, but I doubt this will look acceptable. Fonts usually depend on pixel correctness and if some pixel of them are lost on resize, they become unreadable.

[jgengler]

Hi!

Thanks a lot for this reply.

I made the following steps so far, and got very good results:

Since my graphic card is Intel, I was able to install 915resolution and with this program I setup the graphic card to be able to work with 800 x 480 resolution, and it works fine.

Since I use GNOME as XWinclient, I use F11 to toggle to full screen windows to see them entirely.

If the above doesn't work, I use Alt-F7 and I am able to move the oversized windows as I wish.

I thank you for your advice, becouse this way I am not using more energy to try to squeeze the screen. Using this approach, I don't realy need to do that any more.

Best regards,

Joe