[NTLUG:Discuss] shrinking the desktop

[Monty Shinn]

Greetings.

I am about to hook up either a SUSE or Kubuntu linux box to my hdtv's 
hdmi imput.  I have done this for years using Fedora 4 and the monitor's 
s-video input quite successfully.

What I am needing to do is geometrically shrink the KDE window to fit 
inside the overscan of the crt monitor.  Which is to say, even though 
the monitor is 1920x1080, I am only able to see approx. 1900x1020 due to 
crt overscan/blowout etc.  The same issue applies if I decide to do 
1280x720.

 From what I can tell, this isn't an xorg.conf configuration issue, 
since the scan rate needs to remain standard.  The closest example I can 
think of is using freenx desktop sharing, where you can actively 
increase or decrease the size of the entire KDE desktop, taskbar and all 
inside the freenx shell.

It would be really cool if I could somehow run the entire KDE suite 
inside a geometrically variable shell.

I'll be using the dvi output of a nvidia based card.  Not sure if I will 
be using KDE4 or 3.5.  The box will be a 1.8gig p4 with 1 gig ram.  The 
video card has 256meg memory.  I don't know if the box is robust enough 
to handle KDE4.

The applications I will use most are amarok, firefox, mplayer, xine etc...

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Monty