[LispM-Hackers] Keyboard problem

[ford@objs.com]

"James A. Crippen" wrote:

> ford@objs.com writes:
>
> > Off the top of my head, I only have one definitive answer.  The
> > monitor is 1024x808 landscape.
>
> Is that like the Symbolics monitors, with some extra around the edges
> that doesn't get used?

Not really.  It comes pretty close to the edge, but I suppose you could
be creative at the bottom of the screen and recover some space.  The
who line takes about 20 pixels and the mouse documentation line another 40,
and there's maybe 10 pixels wasted at the top.

Steve

> If so then we might fit the image in 1024x768,
> which is a VESA standard resolution that we could rely on for any SVGA
> capable monitor.
>
> If not then we'd need to find some way to tweak the timings for
> 1024x768 such that it would work with a maximal number of monitors out
> there.
>
> The standard VESA timings can be stolen from XFree86's configuration
> data.
>
> 'james
>
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