Managed area

The "managed area" is the size (X/Y pixel dimensions) of the entire frame buffer. This area is not always the same as the area of the currently displayed video format; it must be at least as big as the format, though.

For example, if the workstation is configured to be 1280x1024 normally, and you issue the command:

	setmon -n ntsc

the managed area, where your windows are opened, will still be 1280x1024. But the video from the pipe will only display a 645x486 corner of this area.

Loading a format which is larger than the current managed area means that the managed area will have to expand. To do this, the format must be saved to the graphics hardware with setmon -x, and then the graphics must be restarted.

Last modified 15 October 1998.

Dave Pape, pape@evl.uic.edu