[plug] GNOME and LCD screens

[Bret Busby]

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.

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
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"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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