Re: Reasonable full screen mode for Acrobat Reader or XPDF in xinerama

From: Trevor Barton (tmb_at_tmjabarton.Xplus.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:10:53 +0100

E S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I hope I am not asking a question that has been asked way too many times
> already (I _have_ googled but no luck).
>
> I have a JVC mini-note laptop which uses the SiS 630 graphics card. This
> supports dual-head operation which is fantastic (thanks to
> http://www.winischhofer.net/ for driver etc!). I use Xinerama which also
> works a treat, all on Debian stable (Woody) so X 4.1.
>
> I use Acrobat's Reader or XPDF to display slides for presentations or
> teaching. When in non-xinerama mode, full screen on the data projector
> works as one would expect. In Xinerama, however, acroread centres the
> image over the two displays, not what I want. XPDF places the image on
> the "left" screen, also not what I want as my left screen is the one on
> the laptop.

acroread -geometry widthxheight+xoffset+yoffset

eg

acroread -geometry 900x1000+2000+10 

-- 
Trevor Barton

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