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I seem to remember my computer (Running Ubuntu 10.04 with NVidia drivers, and the standard DE) doing that at one point. Through changing my external monitor, th

I seem to remember my computer (Running Ubuntu 10.04 with NVidia drivers, and the standard DE) doing that at one point. Through changing my external monitor, the resolution used was larger than my monitors, and I could scroll the viewport by mousing over the edge. I never bothered to figure out exactly how enable/configure this feature intentionally, because I saw it as more annoying and simply reset the resolution. I also remember being on a mac, wherer I could zoom in the entire screen, then scroll the viewport.

elwin 14y ago
That's X11 panning, which has a similar effect. The X server has one big screen buffer, and the physical screens get mapped into regions of it. You can enable it by using xrandr with the --panning option, and it will work with any DE. fvwm doesn't change the X11 screen size, it just moves all the windows to give the appearance of moving the screen in the other direction.