On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:05 +0400, Yuri Bushmelev wrote:
> В сообщении от Пятница 12 сентября 2008 David McNab написал(a):
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to configure the X11 server to a virtual screen
> > size bigger than the device physical screen, including assigning the
> > up/down/left/right buttons for panning?
> 
> You can try to setup your window manager for virtual desktops (VD). I'm not 
> sure about VD support in matchbox but we have icewm and fvwm (in .dev).

I've been doing some experiments. Specifically, I ported and patched the
FLWM window manager (flwm.sf.net) and its requisite libfltk, and added
hotkeys and methods which 'pan' the entire desktop, so that the small
iPaq screen becomes a viewport into a desktop of arbitrary size. This
will be a sanity-saver for apps like abiword, evince and gnumeric which
have been blindly ported into OE without a thought for screen size.

This modified FLWM is working nicely, but what's frustrating is the
inability to integrate this with the extremely useful GPE applets.

I notice that GPE seems very tightly coupled with matchbox, at least at
the level of scripts. Next time I get some free hours (lotsa university
assignments coming due) I'll look into trying to get the GPE applets
working with a separate dockbar app.

Cheers
David



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