Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

Dear Community,

I use my device to setup for example WLAN networks and make router modifications while I have no PC in range.

The problem is that some routers want "800x600" as minimum resolution, its impossible then to access the router / repeater... else. Is it possible to bypass that and send the "webserver" that the Maemo browser is using "800x600" and not "800x480"?

I think that it is quite important for some people here so they can access such websites / devices.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

Try portrait mode? That should make the screen 800 tall. Or am I misunderstanding?

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

You can do this probably by using a browser inside of easy-debian. I use this method to get larger virtual resolution for desktop apps. I do the following. 1. Install easy-debian. 2. inside easy-debian you can apt-get tightvncserver (something like that). then you can launch a vnc server at larger resolution. you do not need to be in LXDE. Opening an easy-debian shell is enough. 3. launch a vnc server like "vncserver :1". give it a password on first launch. 4. install vnc-viewer. 4. connect vnc to localhost:1.

You should now be able to launch iceweasel with a larger resolution.

if you have problems with CAPS then disable auto caps in text input settings. This seems to be an issue with vnc viewer.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

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You can try to disable javascript, but it will probably break some things on the webpage.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

There is not a single website in the world that will fail to work on a browser running sized smaller then its minimum width. You will simply get both horizontal and vertical scrolling.

There is no need to "fake" screen resolution.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

It's possible to write a php or perl script to block ppl with small resolutions.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

Sure, and you can block based on any other info provided by the browser. So? Why do that? That would be silly. Please provide a reference to *any* website or shipping web-enabled device that does this.

Any will do. Just one.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

Some website owners don't want to make their website look ugly/unusable I guess. I never seen websites that block browsers with low resolutions. But I've seen website that change css when they detect lower resolution, to make it look nicer.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

So, those sites would work fine on the n900.

I'm trying to understand if the OP has an actual problem, or a theoretical problem. Because before I used the n900, I was doing the same kind of things with 320x240 screens and winmo with its opera browser and I never had a problem other then needing to scroll like mad to interact with the appliance.

Re: Is there a possibility to fake a screen resolution?
 

Looks like the OP's router/extender/whatever doesn't even load the page if the minimum resolution condition is not met.