This is a fork from 2011's bug 39949 which describes more than one bug as filed and has been summarized. In earlier servers, e.g. Fedora's 1.9.4, openSUSE's 1.10.4 & 1.9.3 and Mandriva's 1.10.3, the following minimal xorg.conf is sufficient to enable working panning: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Default Monitor" DisplaySize 405 253 # 120 DPI @ 1920x1200 & virtual Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" Option "Panning" "1920x1200" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Default Device" Monitor "Default Monitor" EndSection Since sometime in 1.10.x, continuing even as of 1.16rc1, e.g. in Kubuntu's 1.11.3, when same xorg.conf is used, the mouse is constrained to the physical screen size, preventing visibly reaching the desktop portion that is below and to the right of the physical screen. This constraint is absent if instead e.g. for Intel 'xrandr --dpi 120 --fb 1920x1200 --output VGA1 --mode 1440x900 --panning 1920x1200' is used to produce the same screen configuration.
This was fixed in openSUSE 13.1, 13.2, 42.1 and Tumbleweed over a month ago. That bug's owner reportedly was denied access to submit a fix here, had last submitted xorg/xserver patch accepted at https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=44d0fd435a4eaf45e252b4f00409152a6d599dfc .
We've never denied Egbert access to submit patches to X.Org, and since he's a member of the X.Org Board of Directors, he would know how to appeal if we had.
(In reply to Alan Coopersmith from comment #2) > We've never denied Egbert access to submit patches to X.Org, and since he's a > member of the X.Org Board of Directors, he would know how to appeal if we > had. Egbert's patch came in with commit 44d0fd435a4eaf45e252b4f00409152a6d599dfc Author: Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de> Date: Tue Nov 24 17:37:36 2015 +0100 kdrive/UnregisterFd: Fix off by one This was after xorg-server 1.18 was released. # git describe 44d0fd435a4eaf45e252b4f00409152a6d599dfc xorg-server-1.18.0-26-g44d0fd435 but then shortly after was considered dead code and was removed completely. commit c0375dced38674ed98562529530d89ff02c48100 Author: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> Date: Fri Mar 24 15:58:53 2017 -0400 kdrive: static and dead code cleanup This change came after xorg-server 1.19 # git describe c0375dced38674ed98562529530d89ff02c48100 xorg-server-1.19.0-232-gc0375dced So I'm afraid this became a WONTFIX, unless it has been fixed meanwhile via other means.
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