[plug] GNOME and LCD screens
Bret Busby
bret at busby.net
Thu Oct 13 09:22:29 WST 2005
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 billk at iinet.net.au wrote:
>
> 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
> Size: 2K
> 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
> .............
>
name of display: :0.0
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RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
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XKEYBOARD
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significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
--
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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