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``..Mike Dixon writes, ` From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) ` Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:06:02 PST ` ` to help compensate for my laptop's small screen, i'd like some kind ` of "virtual screen" software (i.e. pretend the screen is, say, 2000x2000, ` and let me quickly change which part of it is actually being displayed ` at any given time). ` i've used packages that did this on other OSs (e.g. olvwm under unix/X), olvwm must be a hog on the X-machine! I'm currently using tvtwm on an AIX 3.2.5 and it's heaps faster, - some window functionality. ` and i once played with some other laptop (i think it was a panasonic) that ` seemed to provide this as part of the windows video device driver. What type of virtual screens manager did they have? ` is there any way to get this capability on my thinkpad? There are a few around. WideAngle made it big with their virtual screens. Works in Windows and Win/OS2. It was not a front-end to Windows (like Norton Desktop). Just load Windows and click on the icon. An icon grid (user configurable) of say 9 squares appeared on the bottom of the screen. Each "pigeon hole" is a virtual screen. It is a commercial product. There is also an equivalent OS/2 shareware verison called "9lives" or something. Look through the archives and search for "virtual". I did see two or three sharewares for virtual windows. However none of the virtual screen window managers I've seen emulates tvtwm/X. A small window at the bottom of the screen with a panner. Moving the panner in this window moves the viewable screen to another screen estate. This small window represents the entire (virtual) screen. Then again, you could install Linux+X on the TP and run tvtwm.. if I had more disk space ): Cheers. ____________________________________________________________________ kevin cheong mlp program iss nus