[Wylug-discuss] Display oddity

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 13 February 2006 17:34, Dave Fisher wrote:
>
> If I've understood you correctly, and my experience with KVMs is typical,
> then what you are seeing is also perfectly normal.
>
> I have 4 boxes on a KVM (1x Mac Mini, 1x WinXP on Dell Dimension, 1x
> Linux on Dell Dimension, 1x Linux on Via Mini-ITX).  Whenever I use the
> KVM to switch between the proprietary OSes and Linux I get a small
> horizontal offset.  Interestingly, no such problem occurs between Mac
> and Windows.
>
> My 'solution' is: put up with using the monitor's auto adjust when I
> have to.
>
> Mostly I don't care, because:
>
>   a) I'm a bit of a keyboard jockey and don't often use the scrollbars.
>
>   b) The scrolling problem usually only affects full screen windows, and
>   I rarely use them for apps that I need to mouse around.
>
Thanks, both of you.  It's no biggie, but I just wondered whether it was a 
curiosity of my setup.  I can live with it.

Anne