Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Rogers composed on 2020-03-31 23:09 (UTC-0700): > For years, in xorg.conf I've enjoyed declaring a larger than > comfortable maximum resolution at the end of the modes, then one more > comfortable for my old eyes for use. Then I could slide the visible > window around the larger virtual wind

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Paul Rogers
> The effect you like is called panning. Thank you for that. I couldn't guess what the proper keyword would be for searching, best I could think of was "sliding" and this got lots of hits on vinyl windows! 8-( > > I don't think it has anything to do with the Samsung or the Dell, but I'm quite

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Rogers composed on 2020-04-01 10:38 (UTC-0700): >> How exactly are you configuring? > I attached my X log. It's all but useless for the reasons I asked for it. I cannot but guesstimate how to try to reproduce without this information. >> of 1.18.4 server or driver is broken WRT panning.

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:39 PM Paul Rogers wrote: > > > The effect you like is called panning. > > Thank you for that. I couldn't guess what the proper keyword would be for > searching, best I could think of was "sliding" and this got lots of hits on > vinyl windows! 8-( > > > > > I don't think

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:48 PM Paul Rogers wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: > > Panning has nothing to do with the monitor. It comes down the the > > hardware limitations of the underlying device and what features are > > I'm guessing you mean "device" as used in x

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Paul Rogers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: > Panning has nothing to do with the monitor. It comes down the the > hardware limitations of the underlying device and what features are I'm guessing you mean "device" as used in xorg.conf, i.e. the video card? Obviously the monitor is a de

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Paul Rogers
> I don't think it has anything to do with the Samsung or the Dell, but > rather with > however you are trying to configure. How exactly are you configuring? See attachment. Or are you asking for the build options for the server? >> Please show us your GPU specification, thus: >> # inxi

Re: Lost sliding windows w/ DVI Syncmaster monitor

2020-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Paul Rogers composed on 2020-04-01 13:02 (UTC-0700): >> I don't think it has anything to do with the Samsung or the Dell, but >> rather with >> however you are trying to configure. How exactly are you configuring? > See attachment. Or are you asking for the build options for the server? xorg