Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:09 PM Paul Rogers <paulgrogers at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > I'm not familiar with the vesa or nouveau drivers and whether or not
> > they support panning.  One thing you could try however is to
>
> VESA has been panning all along with my VGA monitors.
>
> > temporarily disable your xorg configs and enable panning dynamically
> > at runtime using xrandr just to see if you can get it working with
> > your hardware combination.  You'll need to use a real driver rather
> > than vesa since vesa can't resize the desktop dynamically at runtime.
>
> I beg to differ.  KP+ & KP- do work with the VESA driver on my VGA monitors, and this server.  It's one of my main reasons for using VESA--a key press is so much faster and easier than xrandr.  My xorg.conf with this system specifies VESA still, and it resizes with the keypad now.
>

Vesa doesn't support the xrandr 1.2 panning feature as far as I recall
so my suggestion would not work with vesa.

Alex

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