extended screen real estate under xorg (xinerama?)

[Jonathan Adamczewski]

On Thu, November 30, 2006 5:38 pm, Kevin Martin wrote:
> Running FC5 with Xorg on an Acer laptop and was wondering if there is a way to make the screen real estate seem
> larger (basically be able to have a virtual screen that is much larger than my physical screen, effectively making my
> 14" screen display as a 30"
> display)?  I've read some about Xinerama but that seems to be for using multiple screens, not making my tiny screen
> "virtually"
> huge.  The Video card is an ATI X1300 Mobility and I'm running ATI's Linux driver.

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf find the appropriate screen section ...

Look for something like the following :

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen name"
    Device      "Some device name"
    Monitor     "Some monitor name"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1600 1200
    EndSubsection
EndSection


The "Virtual" line is the one of interest - change the numbers to something bigger than the resoltion (Mode).  Restart
X and you should have your giant desktop.

jonathan.