Virtual desktop - smaller than display

[Martin Langhoff]

Bump on this question -- Is there a way to feed a Virtual config that
is _smaller_ than the display size, and have X put the (smaller)
desktop in the center of the screen, with black/white/grey bands
around?

Alex was suggesting modeline fidgeting, but we're on an LCD, and we
have a DCON chip that doesn't play ball with odd modelines. [
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON ]

For the time being, I am working around it with Xephyr, and paying for
it bigtime in responsiveness.

Fuller question and background in the original email below...

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> [ Working on an XO-1.5, F11, X.org 1.6.4, in Xinerama mode across a
> Via/Chrome device and SiS USB2VGA.]
>
> The internal screen and desktop are 1200x900 and we cannot change that
> (as we have hw that is locked to that rez).
>
> Is there a way to feed a Virtual config that is _smaller_ than the
> display size, and have X put the (smaller) desktop in the center of
> the screen, with black/white/grey bands around?
>
> Currently, X.org looks at Virtual and picks a _smaller_ mode.
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
> --
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>  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
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>
>
> --
>  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
>  - ask interesting questions
>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>



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 martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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