Virtual desktop gone

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:04:11AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Bob Tennent wrote:
> > Hi. I've upgraded my ASUS S5N ultraportable to Fedora 7. I used to
> > specify i810 as the driver but now that hangs up and I switched to
> > intel. But I no longer get a virtual desktop, despite:
> >
> >                   Virtual   1600 1200
> >
> > in the Display section of xorg.conf.
> 
> Some Debian users sent the same request since RandR 1.2 now uses the old
> Virtual line in xorg.conf without apparently keeping the old behavior
> enabled (I mean things like hitting the corner of the physical screen
> would move it in the virtual screen). I'd like to know too whether the
> old virtual desktop feature is supposed to work combined with RandR 1.2
> or whether it will just disappear.

  It got removed from xserver and has to be reimplemented (along with
xrandr-1.2 awarness) in window managers.

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