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4211vd – Display Panning Applet for Ubuntu on the MSI Wind
The MSI Wind U100, also sold as the Advent 4211, features an LCD display with a resolution of 1024x600. Whilst this is becoming a fairly standard netbook resolution many applications do not run correctly with it. 4211vd is a simple utility to allow panning or scaling under Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 on the MSI Wind U100.
Panning or Scaling
Under panning mode the LCD screen acts like a window onto a larger display. By moving the cursor to the edge of the screen the user can pan around the larger display. Scaling mode displays a larger resolution on the LCD panel by shrinking it to fit. However, since the 1024x600 resolution is a hardware limitation this can result in poor display quality.
Requirements
4211vd requires the following to be configured and working (the standard Ubuntu 9.04 or 9.10 install should be suitable), although it may work on other configurations:
- MSI Wind U100 (or rebrand)
- Xrandr 1.3
- Xorg 1.6.0
- Gnome desktop environment
- Zenity 2.26
Download
DISCLAIMER: 4211vd is provided "as-is". It is not guaranteed to be fit for purpose. The author accepts no liability for damage or loss caused directly or indirectly by 4211vd. You may not modify or redistribute 4211vd.
4211vd is provided as a ".deb" Debian package. On a standard Ubuntu 9.04 or 9.10 installation you can simply download the package to your desktop, double click it and choose "Install Package". You may need to log out and back in for 4211vd to start.
The current version of 4211vd is 0.0.2.
Enabling Scaling
By default 4211vd uses panning mode. If you want to enable scaling you can edit the "4211vd.sh" script, which is located in "/usr/bin". Find the line which says "scale=0" and change it to "scale=1". This is not recommended however.
Usage
4211vd should automatically start when you login to the Gnome desktop. To switch to panning/scaling mode simply click on the icon located in the notification area (see above screenshot). To switch back, just click it again.