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Panning
Why do I need to use panning?
Your workstation display would be set to one of many resolutions - 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024. You may however wish to have the Xserver screen to be significantly larger than your display resolution..
Your display then is a viewport onto the entire X Server screen, and some of your x applications may lie outside this viewport. Panning is used to reach the areas outside the
viewport.
How do I access applications beyond the edge of my screen?
If you enable panning and take the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen, the viewport shifts to bring areas of the X server which are outside the screen into the viewport. i.e. moving the mouse pointer to the right edge of the screen will bring into view applications which were positioned beyond the right edge.
My screen does not get refreshed fast enough on panning. Why?
You can increase the speed at which exposures reach the X applications. This will enable the X applications to redraw the exposed area faster. Increased exposures however mean increase in the network traffic.
You could further adjust the speed at which the display pans to fine tune the level of control you need.
I have panning enabled but am unable to pan on some edges of the screen.
Panning will work only on those edges where either there is no taskbar, or the standard Windows 95/NT taskbar is present. Panning is not possible on those edges where any application taskbar is present.
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