On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:21:16AM -0500, Tessa Lau wrote: > > Hi all, > > I use fvwm on a laptop. When it's docked, it's connected to a monitor > with 1600x1200 resolution; when I undock it, I have a virtual screen > of 1600x12000 and physical screen of 1024x768. > > One of the problems that crops up is that an application will pop up > modal dialog boxes (e.g., a browser's "save file" dialog) that are > mapped off the edge of the physical display. Unless I think to pan to > the right and check for modal dialogs, it looks like my browser has > wedged. > > I'd like to make it such that when I'm undocked, no windows are mapped > beyond the edge of the physical screen, so that I can use my laptop as > if it had an effective virtual resolution of 1024x768. AFAIK, X is > incapable of dynamically changing virtual screen resolutions, so I'm > trying to find a workaround using the window manager. I need to do > this without restarting my X server or killing running applications. > Restarting the window manager is okay, though I'd prefer a method that > communicates with a running fvwm. >
Maybe you will be interested that XFree current cvs can change the screen resolution dynamically (so XFree-4.3 will be able to do this). This is done using the xrandr utilities. However, fvwm does not support Randr yet. Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
