Have you got the fonts AA set for and LCD screen?
Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:38:28 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:26:27 +1200
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:00, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:50:03 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:44 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Any KDE experts out there able to give me pointers as to how to
optimise my display after upgrading to dual LCD monitors from CRT?
It almost looks like I need anti-aliasing enabled - bright halos
around dark characters when typing.
Monitors are 19" LCD, 1280x1024, displa is an ATI 550 something. KDE
is 3.5
Wish I were bragging, but this is at work, not home (:
Steve
LCD monitors always seem to go best at their native resolution, ie
their highest supported. What res are they capable of and what are you
running them at?
Unfortunately 1280x1024, and 1280x1024 (:
make sure the X-11 server is actually running at that resolution.
This is helpful
# cd ~/
# X -configure
Now have a test run using:-
# X -config xorg.conf.new
It creates a new xorg.conf file as a basis for extra work using:-
http://amlc.berlios.de/
You don't mention which dist. you are using.
The anally-retentive ones don't install the full set of fonts by default,
particularly the nice ones for some strange reason.
Ensure that some of the fonts available are scalable.
( Type1 or ttf )
I like BitStream Vera Sans.
--
CS
Although reading between the lines, the fonts were working fine before
the new monitor was installed.
to actually check what res the server is running at the magic is:
xwininfo -root
certainly I have founnd the best way to get X to recognise a new monitor is to
do as Chris says and run X -configure. Most modern monitors probe well, older
ones like the crappy little 14 inch jobbies don't. The
xorg.conf.new file is located in the current dir and needs to be moved
(after judicious inspection and backing up) to /etc/X11/
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, I updated it by hand as the second monitor is a real pig to get the
refresh right ( and that's a *real* problem with crt's as I'm sensitised to
60Hz after all these years of staring at them - practically an instant migraine
). Both are fine. Both are set up to *only* run at 1280x1024, and both are
doing so.
I'm running debian testing, and my partner in crim has the same problem with
gentoo. I'll try gnome tomorrow, although I'm being forced to use the KDE IDE
for development at the moment.
Anything else you're after? I have no problem whatsoever here at home with an
old Acer 1280x1024 monitor with fc4 and an nvidia card. It's almost like the
fonts need to be bolder.
Steve
