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

2013-01-27 Thread Nikolay Kichukov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Samuel, Thank you very much for the suggestion. It works like a charm. I was wondering if there is an option in xorg.conf where I can define framebuffer size and not use xrandr any more? I am not able to find such an option in the manual. Any

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

2013-01-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nikolay Kichukov, le Thu 24 Jan 2013 17:30:33 +0200, a écrit : > Note: the broken part of the LCD at the top is so small, that I decided to > neglect it and use full height. In that case, --fb alone should be fine, since it defaults to aligning the top-left corner. Samuel ___

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

2013-01-24 Thread Nikolay Kichukov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Felix, thank you very much for the pointers. Actually I had tried panning before, but with no results. However, now that I read through the bug report (I did not patch X server), I tried a few more commands and one of the results works lovely.

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

2013-01-23 Thread walter harms
Am 23.01.2013 16:41, schrieb Samuel Thibault: > walter harms, le Wed 23 Jan 2013 16:25:28 +0100, a écrit : >> X will always try to use the whole screen. > > --fb permits to restrict the used size. But it's by default on the top > left corner of the screen, I don't know how to move that further b

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

2013-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
walter harms, le Wed 23 Jan 2013 16:25:28 +0100, a écrit : > X will always try to use the whole screen. --fb permits to restrict the used size. But it's by default on the top left corner of the screen, I don't know how to move that further below. Samuel ___

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

2013-01-23 Thread 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: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

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

2013-01-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-01-23 14:40 (GMT+0200) Nikolay Kichukov composed: I have asked several times on IRC about this, but got no response, thus I am writing to the list. 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