Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Tobias Ringström
On 02/12/2010 08:47 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I'm trying in vain to get Twinview to work with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers. You know, images that show in a 5x4 format on my Viewsonic monitor showing fullscreen in 5x4 format on my Sony TV and images that are 16x9 filling up all the TV screen.

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Why do people repeatedly get this so wrong?  (Users and those making the systems.)  The pixel count and resolution should be set to match the display card and the monitor, it's the FONT SIZE and graphics sizes that you

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread birger
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 07:39 +0100, Tobias Ringström wrote: Why would anyone even want user specific display settings? Are users expected to move monitors around between logging in? Per user settings might be useful as a feature, but it's a very unfriendly default, or am I missing something?

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread birger
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 00:27 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: GnuStep isn't supported on Fedora because of some manner of Political Insanity. Cocoa and GnuStep software is always packaged in small directory trees known as bundles; all of the files that on a traditional *NIX box are

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: 2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström tob...@ringis.se: I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using Nvidia's

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: What I've been looking for, for a long time, yet am unable to find, is a very large, yet LOW resolution LCD display. What I would like to see are great big fat square sharp pixels, with great big, sharply defined and completely non-antialiased text. if you

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 02/12/2010 12:17 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: What I've been looking for, for a long time, yet am unable to find, is a very large, yet LOW resolution LCD display. What I would like to see are great big fat square sharp pixels, with great big, sharply defined

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström tob...@ringis.se: On 02/12/2010 08:47 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I'm trying in vain to get Twinview to work with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers. You know, images that show in a 5x4 format on my Viewsonic monitor showing fullscreen in 5x4 format on my Sony TV and images

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: 2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström tob...@ringis.se: Thanks for the trouble but see my answer to Tobias Ringström. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: I use the big Dell WFP3008, which doubles up pixels quite nicely to 1280 x 800.  Mind you, are you sure you don't just need new glasses? It's not that I can't focus. It's that I don't want to have to. Focussing all day

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
2010/2/11 Tobias Ringström tob...@ringis.se: Why would anyone even want user specific display settings? Are users expected to move monitors around between logging in? Per user settings might be useful as a feature, but it's a very unfriendly default, or am I missing something? It would make

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Ed Greshko
Tobias Ringström wrote: I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using Nvidia's closed source driver, and I didn't even have

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström tob...@ringis.se: I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using Nvidia's closed source driver, and I

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 22:56 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: It would make sense for the cathode ray tube multisync monitors from the days of yore. Obsessive geek types could set the resolution very high to fit more source code on the screen... ... while those with poor eyesight