Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-30 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Nils Larsson
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-28 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Stroller
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*

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
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 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-26 Thread Indexer
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