Yeah next time I have a question will save the draft and do one more google search, b/c I found a reasonable solution right after I hit send, haha.
Thanks for the link, that's exactly what was looking for. Now to play with xrandr to unleash it's sweet sweet potential. Thanks again! -Peter On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Rich Li <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/19/2012 05:23 PM, Peter Konrad Konneker wrote: > > Am using a netbook and want to try and emulate a larger screen size. > > Windows XP has the option by default, and I've read one thread that made > > it seem possible with xorg.conf, but that was making my system > unbootable. > > > > Is there a linux program that'll do this? Or a way to just make linux do > > it? My google-fu is failing me pretty hard on this one. > > I haven't tried it before, but I'm pretty sure that xrandr is the > program that will do the trick. Here [1] is an example from the Ubuntu > documentation. > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution#Panning_viewport > > -- > Rich > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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