[NTLUG:Discuss] shrinking the desktop

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Monty Shinn <montys at videopost.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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God , don't flame me for saying this but , Nvidia with Winders has a scaling
program with in the Nvidia Control Panel , that lets you resize to the
TV/Monitor screen edges .
Have not done any Linux/Myst yet waiting for Kernel to catch up with TV card
, which it has now , so will follow this and see where it goes .
Nvidia could release a Linux software with same capabilities couldn't they .


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