maximize your screens real estate

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Not a howto: more like a quick tip. To make your screen size larger than the physical size of your monitor, you can add the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24

# the following line will create a virtual screen size of 800 px wide x 1800 px high
Virtual 800 1800
EndSubSection
EndSection

This will allow you to remove the top and bottom borders from applications such as Konqueror, by scrolling the virtual screen with the mouse. You will then be able to fill the whole of your visable screen with the applications content.

See the attached png for an example.

[Coolerthanyou]

You could also just press F11 in firefox

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Originally Posted by Coolerthanyou

You could also just press F11 in firefox

That has a similar effect, but not quite the same as creating a virtual desktop that allows you to
display and pan around a taller window than the actual physical size of your viewing screen.

Firefox will only fill the physically available screen real estate using F11.

By using a virtual screen size (virtual desktop) you get the benefit of being able to show differing consoles and other applications, without them overlapping.