On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:21:16AM -0500, Tessa Lau wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I use fvwm on a laptop. When it's docked, it's connected to a monitor
> with 1600x1200 resolution; when I undock it, I have a virtual screen
> of 1600x12000 and physical screen of 1024x768.
>
> One of the problems that crops up is that an application will pop up
> modal dialog boxes (e.g., a browser's "save file" dialog) that are
> mapped off the edge of the physical display. Unless I think to pan to
> the right and check for modal dialogs, it looks like my browser has
> wedged.
>
> I'd like to make it such that when I'm undocked, no windows are mapped
> beyond the edge of the physical screen, so that I can use my laptop as
> if it had an effective virtual resolution of 1024x768. AFAIK, X is
> incapable of dynamically changing virtual screen resolutions, so I'm
> trying to find a workaround using the window manager. I need to do
> this without restarting my X server or killing running applications.
> Restarting the window manager is okay, though I'd prefer a method that
> communicates with a running fvwm.
>
Maybe you will be interested that XFree current cvs can change the
screen resolution dynamically (so XFree-4.3 will be able to do this).
This is done using the xrandr utilities. However, fvwm does not
support Randr yet.
Olivier
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Received on Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:35:35 GMT