[plug] Re: GNOME and LCD screens

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Bret Busby wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:04:08 +0800 (WST)
> From: Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: GNOME and LCD screens
> 
>
> After attending the seminar last night about GNOME and KDE, and seeing the 
> facility for changing the screen resolution from the GUI menu system, I tried 
> changing my screen resolution from 1280x1024, to 1280x960, so that the 
> vertical scroll bars would appear on the screen.
>
> However, whilst the vertical scrollbars were brought onto the screen, the 
> resolution sharpness was lost, which is more pronounced with the LCD screen.
>
> However, when I am able to click on the title bar of windows, and move the 
> windows to the left, and resize the width of the windows, by dragging the 
> right edge of a window to the left, while the window width is decreased so 
> that the vertical scroll bars are visible on the screen, the character 
> sharpness stays the same as at the 1280x1024 resolution, but, unfortunately, 
> for most browser windows, I am unable to move the window by clicking on the 
> title bar. It is a thing that sometimes I can do, and sometimes I can't.
>

That should have been, when I narrow the windows, at the 1280x1024 
resolution (I think that the above paragraph may imply that the 
narrowing of the windows, was at 1280x960 resolution).

> And, the window width varies, depending on the number of tabs that are open 
> within a browser window. Sometimes, the vertical scroll bars are visible, 
> then, as I open more tabs within a browser window, the right edge of the 
> window, moves to the right (the window widens), and the vertical scroll bars 
> disappear.
>
> If I "unmaximise" a window, by clicking on the middle button in the top right 
> corner of the title bar, the character size and sharpness within the window 
> is unchanged.
>
> The screen is an Acer AL1715 17" LCD screen, with which I replaced the 
> previous 17" CRT screen.
>
> Is this a GNOME issue, an XWindows issue, a configuration issue, or a screen 
> problem issue?
>
> Apart from this problem, the screen works well with the Linux that I am using 
> (Debian testing/unstable), and the displays look good, but it would be good 
> to have the vertical scrollbars fully on the screen and visble.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>  Chapter 28 of
>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>  written by Douglas Adams,
>  published by Pan Books, 1992
>
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>

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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