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Screen Space

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About 24 months ago, I bought a plain, bottom-of-the-range PC with a built-in graphics card. Fedora 5 was out, but I installed Fedora 4 because I had it on hand, and I set up the system for a 19" LCD (1280x1024). Twelve months ago, I gave the 19" LCD to my mother when her 15" CRT died. Then I got a 22" LCD (1680x1050) and, under KDE's Control Center, I picked 1680x1050 in Peripheral | Display. The setting now states (1680x1200), although I am sure I picked 1680x1050.

I was actually quite happy with the situation. The LCD behaved as a viewport of a larger desktop. If I moved the mouse pointer to the bottom of the LCD, the desktop would scroll up to reveal the hidden 150 pixels.

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