Hello a possible workaround is to use a large Virtual screen size in xorg.conf.
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:23 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > I've been discussing accessibility/usability with visually impaired > users lately, and one thing that came up, and that I believe to be > low-hanging fruit, is the problem of windows being bigger than the > screen in one or both dimensions. > > This happens frequently for visually impaired users, since they > generally have very large fonts. > > I was told by one user that the way he worked around this was by going > to the control panel, choosing a smaller font temporarily, moving the > window, then setting the big font again. Of course, he was very happy to > hear about the alt+drag shortcut. > > Which made me wonder if there's a more discoverable way of moving > windows around when they're too big/partially off-screen. > > One idea that came up was automatically adding scrollbars to the > windows, but I don't see how that could work reliably, and it would > clutter the screen and be error-prone/hard to do technically. > > A better idea might be something like the following logic in the window > manager: > > IF window is focused AND > pointer is pushing against the edge of the screen AND > window has area off that edge of the screen AND > user is not dragging > THEN > move the window in the opposite direction of the edge being pushed > > So e.g. if you have a focused window which is partially off the > right-hand side of the screen, and you push your pointer against that > side, bumping into the edge, the window will move to the left until you > can see its right-edge frame. The rate of movement would be equal to the > number of pixels the pointer "wants" to move off-screen at each > increment. Only the focused window would be affected. > > I think this would be a lot more discoverable and useful for everyone - > not just visually impaired users - and it looks like all the required > information is available to the window manager, so it shouldn't be > terribly hard to implement. > > Thoughts? > -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Desktop LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. Fedora is the best of what works today. Enterprise Linux is the best of what will work consistently for the next seven years. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
