How to switch the screen to 2560x1600 and above?

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1010101001000100110100111, 2012-02-09 14:27:38

I remember a long time ago, about 10 years ago, I went to visit a certain person.
He had a “huge” 19″ CRT monitor at home.
First of all, I wanted to find out what maximum screen resolution this “monster” can withstand.
I got into the screen properties, and moved the “slider” to the extreme right position: 2560x1600 (nifigase!!)
I am confused for a while before pressing the “OK” button (it will suddenly explode again), reflexively close my eyes, press “OK”, open my eyes - I see - a beautiful desktop picture with tiny icons (before that it was 1024x768), but the launch pad and the start button have disappeared somewhere. I'm in shock. I don't fully understand what happened. I instinctively move the mouse to the bottom of the screen: and ...
Oh, miracle!
The screen "scrolls" and the launch pad that was "below the screen" appears.
Returning from a state of shock, and soberly assessing the situation, I was a little disappointed. I felt that I was "cruelly deceived", and that 2560x1600 is not a real screen resolution at all. Poking around in the properties of the screen, I switched to the maximum mode (when there is no scrolling), and this unit didn’t bother me anymore, since there was nothing supernatural (compared to my “tag”, except maybe a refresh rate of 120 Hz) I didn't see it there.

Many years later, I wanted to repeat the experiment of switching to a “scrolling” screen mode, but everywhere I was in for a bummer: a similar effect could not be achieved anywhere else.

Question: Has anyone else managed to do this?
Maybe on some virtual machine this can be done?
What OS version do you need to install?
Or maybe some magical firewood needs to be thrown?

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1x1, 2012-02-09
@1x1

This feature was in the old drivers from Nvidia and was no longer supported somewhere around the release of Windows Vista.
Virtual machines quite allow you to set your own resolution (at least VirtualBox / VMWare).

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pomeo, 2012-02-09
@pomeo

Xs in Linux can do this, in xorg.conf in the SubSection "Display" the Virtual variable

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Evengard, 2012-02-09
@Evengard

The most interesting thing is that I encountered a similar effect on virtual machines. Actually, on a regular VirtualBox, this is real.
I don't really remember, it was a long time ago.

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vaniapooh, 2012-02-09
@vaniapooh

I saw this effect when connecting to a remote desktop via VPN. There, in the properties of the client, you can choose not to scale the desktop and, if the resolutions of the two desktops do not match, scrollbars will appear.

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Vlad Zhivotnev, 2012-02-09
@inkvizitor68sl

If for testing purposes (to take screenshots of pages?), then Remmina can set any resolution when connecting to RDP.