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	allnameswereout	2009-10-11 , 05:14
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man

Hmm, ok so I'm beginning to see what you mean. It's something similar to if you specify a resolution bigger then your monitor in Linux (something you have to do sometimes to get around limitations when using dual monitors) combined with the idea of virtual desktops but instead of having to switch between each of them (well you still are, but now it's just panning around instead of switching between them with a keypress).

Or like this: a 320x240 resolution because of X configuration error (1, 2). Oh, the memories.. and nightmares..

You can have a virtual screen (desktop), which is screen area that is larger than the physical screen and which is panned by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. If you don't want virtual desktop at a certain resolution, you cannot have modes listed that are larger. Each color depth can have a differently-sized virtual screen

Please answer the following question with either 'y' or 'n'.

Do you want a virtual screen that is larger than the physical screen?

Its also explained here.

So this is a feature which has long existed in X, and was once a time quite useful.

Problem is that it didn't have that 'sticky' feature, like for example Winamp has traditionally had. So, because it didn't have that, and ofcourse the desktop windows didn't have pre-defined sizes and such, it went like madness scrolling. Made me crazy, never fully recovered..

Something like Expose tries to solve this, by placing the windows intelligently in unused desktop space. But there is lack of pre-defined window sizes, and if you run Dashboard in background (you don't, its not there) it covers that data.

So, in order for this to be useful, you'd need some hard rules in the HIG and more make it feel like 'browsing' your desktop (or an app, like a calendar). A bit like iPhone allows you to browse through the several pages of apps installed. Except in this context its much more useful.

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