positioning X on part of the screen ( broken LCD on old laptop )

[walter harms]

IMHO,
X will always try to use the whole screen.
I guess you will not need the whole speed
so you may reconnect using Xnest where you can define
the windowsize accordingly.

just my 2 cents,
re,
 wh

Am 23.01.2013 13:40, schrieb Nikolay Kichukov:
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> Hi all,
> I have asked several times on IRC about this, but got no response, thus I am writing to the list.
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> I have an old laptop that has a broken LCD. The upper and right part are corrupt and I would like to position the X
> output some few cm below the upper and right edges of the screen. I tried to achieve the above with xorg.conf and
> using xrandr, but so far my attempts have failed.
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> I am running gentoo linux with Xorg version x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.1.
> The laptop is Dell Inspiron 1200 with intel 915 video card inside.
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> Hope this picture above will not get scrambled. If the bigger rectangle is the whole screen, I'd like to have X
> occupying the smaller rectangle, the rest to stay unused.
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> Any hints and suggestions are welcome.
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> Please do not remove my email when you reply as I am not subscribed to the list.
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> Thank you,
> - -Nik
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