Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What is a Shuttle PC?
2009/4/13 Rob Malpass <lug@???>: > Thanks Al but I visit that link about once a week. I think just about
> everything I've picked up on is a known bug. What I need is a dualhead
> setup where the secondary monitor effectively becomes a magnified version of
> whatever's underneath the pointer. Zoomtext does this just about ok on
> Windows but when you're running anything demanding at the same time .e.g. a
> 30Mb spreadsheet, only Zoomtext seems able to handle it - and even then
> things go flaky. Try the equivalent with gmag and Ooo calc and the
> secondary monitor often corrupts which slows everything down - and has even
> forced a hard reset [yuk].
>
I have a dual screen setup, so will give that a test.
> Anyway - thanks all for your help - I don't want this to turn into a M$ v
> Linux whinge. I hope y'all know I'm totally pro Linux - it's just in this
> one case - I've not found a Linux solution that's as stable as M$ yet.
> Though I do concede I've not tried it across the platforms / hardware - I
> just don't have the cash!!
>
Sure, I'm just trying to help you avoid running Windows.