[plug] GNOME and LCD screens

[billk at iinet.net.au]

What does xdpyinfo say? - sounds like you are running in low res viewport.

Billk



-----Original Message-----

From:  Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>
Subj:  Re: [plug] GNOME and LCD screens
Date:  Wed 12 Oct 2005 17:52
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To:  plug at plug.org.au, billk at iinet.net.au

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> 
> For gnome at least, put the mouse cursor in the middle of an offending
> windo and ALT-LEFTCLICK and DRAG the window into line.
>
> LCD's *must* run at their native resolution for best results.  You need
> to find out what it is and make X match it.  I have had all sorts of
> issues with my laptop over this, especially when trying to run an
> external projector. Depending on the relationship between what
> resolution you have chosen, and the native resolution, you will get
> varying degrees of display crappyness.
>
> BillK
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:04 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> After attending the seminar last night about GNOME and KDE, and seeing
>> the facility for changing the screen resolution from the GUI menu
>
>

The screen resolution is set at 1280x1024 as the highest resolution 
advised to me by Acer, and 60Hz as advised to me by Acer. I phoned Acer 
when I installed the screen, as the screen did not come with a proper 
manual (that gives the screen specifications).

I have tried what you said in the first paragraph above, and sometimes 
it has an effect, and sometimes it doesn't. I have to repeatedly do it, 
for it to have an effect. When it does have an effect, what it does, is 
reduces (unmaximises (?) ) the window, and causes the title bar to 
become under the mouse cursor, so I end up with a window about (at a 
guess) 640x480. When I maximise that, it goes back to being bigger than 
the screen.

At present, the only way that I can get a window to match the screen 
size and retain the sharpness, is to manually unmaximise the window, 
then manually draw the edges out to fit the screen.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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