Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Mick wrote: I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size screen (15.6). The characters are tiny and anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? What's wrong with Firefox's preferences? Edit - Preferences - Content - Advanced... and you can customize fonts (including size and other behavior).
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On Friday 30 April 2010 18:49:40 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Mick wrote: I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size screen (15.6). The characters are tiny and anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? What's wrong with Firefox's preferences? Edit - Preferences - Content - Advanced... and you can customize fonts (including size and other behavior). Right, but it doesn't seem to affect the menus. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Freitag, 30. April 2010 schrieb Mick: On Friday 30 April 2010 18:49:40 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Mick wrote: I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size screen (15.6). The characters are tiny and anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? What's wrong with Firefox's preferences? Edit - Preferences - Content - Advanced... and you can customize fonts (including size and other behavior). Right, but it doesn't seem to affect the menus. Have you tried what I suggested? Here, KDE and Firefox menus have the same font size. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Concious smokers drink decaf. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On 28 April 2010 06:35, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:02:53PM +0100, Mick wrote anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. There is one exception to that general rule. If you divide the X and/or Y dimensions by a whole number, the result may be blocky fonts, but at least there is no interpolation. For a 1920x1080 screen, dimensions like 960x1080 960x540 960x360 640x1080 640x540 640x360 480x1080 480x540 480x360 would involve no interpolation. Of the possibilities listed, the only sane ones are 960x1080, 960x540, 640x540, 640x360, and 480x360. If you have a VGA input on the LCD monitor, and if you know the monitor's safe horizontal and vertical frequency ranges, you can go to a site like http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl or http://amlc.berlios.de/ and generate custom modelines for the reduced sizes. You may need doublescan for some of the smaller screens. Hmm, that's all the choice that I have I'm afraid: $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) LVDS connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 1680x1050 60.0 1400x1050 60.0 1280x1024 59.9 1440x900 59.9 1280x960 59.9 1280x854 59.9 1280x800 59.8 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 59.9 800x60059.9 640x48059.4 DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Anyway, I'm not the OP and I don't want to hijack the thread ... but thanks all the same Walter. I didn't know about the xtiming page. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
måndag 26 april 2010 13:57:56 skrev Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? If you're using a kernel with kernel mode setting enabled you can add the video= parameter to the kernel command line in grub.cfg(or menu.lst). So if you set video=1400x1050, X will think that's the highest resolution it can set.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size screen (15.6). The characters are tiny and anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? There's a package that lets GTK apps look like KDE apps, including font, called kcm_gtk. It adds a page to System settings under Appearance-Appearance called GTK styles and fonts. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' No user was harmed by sending this Outlook-free message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Frank Steinmetzger skrev: Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size screen (15.6). The characters are tiny and anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? There's a package that lets GTK apps look like KDE apps, including font, called kcm_gtk. It adds a page to System settings under Appearance-Appearance called GTK styles and fonts. Running fluxbox myself, but the idea should work across desktops: use xrandr and lie to X about the physical size of your screen. On my TV I run xrandr first once without arguments to get the actual size, dive the sizes by two and run xrandr like so: xrandr --fbmm 443x247. This is a 32 16:9 TV. Stick this last bit somewhere early in your login-sequence. Works beautifylly.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On 26 Apr 2010, at 12:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). Assuming it is an LCD / TFT or otherwise not-a-big-glass-tube monitor, this will make the display LESS sharp. You should make the icons fonts *themselves* larger instead, if this is what you are trying to achieve. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 00:18:19 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, Because it isn't pertinent to what I asked. but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will ... strain your eyes far more. It doesn't. I've always had blurred vision (myopia in one eye and astigmatism in the other, both fairly severe) and I'm better at resolving blurred images than picking detail out of small ones. I'm trying to reduce the neck-ache caused by straining forwards to see the screen. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 17:06:07 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2010 00:18:19 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, Because it isn't pertinent to what I asked. but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will ... strain your eyes far more. It doesn't. I've always had blurred vision (myopia in one eye and astigmatism in the other, both fairly severe) and I'm better at resolving blurred images than picking detail out of small ones. I'm trying to reduce the neck-ache caused by straining forwards to see the screen. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size screen (15.6). The characters are tiny and anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:02:53PM +0100, Mick wrote anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. There is one exception to that general rule. If you divide the X and/or Y dimensions by a whole number, the result may be blocky fonts, but at least there is no interpolation. For a 1920x1080 screen, dimensions like 960x1080 960x540 960x360 640x1080 640x540 640x360 480x1080 480x540 480x360 would involve no interpolation. Of the possibilities listed, the only sane ones are 960x1080, 960x540, 640x540, 640x360, and 480x360. If you have a VGA input on the LCD monitor, and if you know the monitor's safe horizontal and vertical frequency ranges, you can go to a site like http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl or http://amlc.berlios.de/ and generate custom modelines for the reduced sizes. You may need doublescan for some of the smaller screens. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will be blurry and strain your eyes far more. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
On 27/04/2010, at 8:48 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will be blurry and strain your eyes far more. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. The best way to achieve this would be to set your resolution manually in xorg.conf, rather than using the KDE4 tool. William
