> I purchased a 17" monitor with 1280X1024 resolution. That resolution > makes my text and pictures to small. I need to run 1024X768. However > 1024X768 doesn't look very good. The detail is not sharp. Is this a TFT monitor, by any chance? Those will often have 1280x1024 physical picture elements, and so if you want to run the monitor at anything other than its native resolution, it has to do a somewhat convoluted image resizing process. On many older TFTs, this looked rather odd, and even on newer ones it's usually visible.
(On a CRT, the monitor electronics can essentially ignore the physical phosphor clusters, and pretend it has continuous emitter elements. The aperture grill/shadow mask/etc. then makes sure electrons don't leak to the wrong colour dots. In effect, the physical pattern of shadows and phosphers handles the pixel blending automatically.) > Is ther anyway to decrease the viewed resolution without reducing > the video cards resolution? Not to the best of my knowledge. Your best bet is probably to just scale the text up a bit: most programs accept arguments of the form ``-fs <size>'' to set the font size to <size> points (so, for instance, ``xterm -fs 20''), or have a suitable configuration dialog somewhere. You could also try xmag, which is usually included with the standard XFree86 clients package. Steven Smith.
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