Subject: Re: Tips for configuring X on an odd sized screen
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/17/2003 16:25:15
David Laight wrote:
> 
> What exactly do you mean by 'wrapping at the bottom'?
> 
> Is the error in just a small number of lines
> Are the rest of the lines in about the correct place on the screen?
> Are there undrawn lines at the top of the screen?
> Is the first pixel of each line visible?
> Is the last pixel of each line visible?
> 

While I'm at work I don't have access to somewhere on the net, otherwise
I'd link to a screenshot. Instead I'll try and decribe how the screen
appears in ASCII:

+-----------------------------+
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
|-----------------------------+ -> this is where the display "wraps"
|                             |    from the top
|                             |
+-----------------------------+

Aproximately 10% of the bottom of the screen duplicates the top ...
So if I open a terminal window and move it off the top of the screen,
this happens:

+-----------------------------+
|                +----------+ |
|                |          | |
|                |   term   | |
|                |          | |
|                +----------+ |
|                             |
|                             |
|-----------------------------+
|                +----------+ |
|                |          | |
+-----------------------------+

So the top of the screen is repeated at the bottom. If I move the
terminal window up as far as the cursor will go, then the top of it
disappears completely:

+-----------------------------+
|                |          | |
|                |   term   | |
|                |          | |
|                +----------+ |
|                             |
|                             |
|                             |
|-----------------------------+
|                |          | |
|                |          | |
+-----------------------------+

Chris
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