On 23 Apr 2003, Mike Chambers wrote: >> My primary monitor is a Del P991, dunno how close it is. I use >> it at 1600x1200 @ 85Hz across 4 machines via KVM switch. I've >> ran it as high as 1920x1440 with decent results. I primarily use >> Radeon hardware, but it's been used with pretty much every brand >> and model of hardware you can think of with similar results. > >SHEESH, what size monitor are YOU using? On a 17" monitor, 800x600 and >the next one up is about as good as you can get it, otherwise things are >way too small, even if changing font sizes and such. Dell P991 is a 19" Sony Trinitron. I'm not sure why people get the misconception that "higher resolution" == "everything is small". Some things are smaller, such as icons, etc. and some applications and whatnot will keep their pixelized size the same resulting in smaller default after the change. Nonetheless, you simply change the size of your icons/fonts/whatever and you have a high resolution desktop with lots of real estate, which is much more readable and useful. >From a stock Red Hat Linux installation, I configure to 1600x1200, and then change the size of some things. In general however, I find myself making the size of things *smaller* as I find the defaults way to large. For terminals anyway, I maximize them fullscreen and use tabs: pts/7 mharris@xxx:~$ echo LINES=$LINES COLUMNS=$COLUMNS LINES=67 COLUMNS=197 The font size is that of a printed book more or less and quite readable IMHO, and I'm half blind (probably even legally blind without glasses or contact lenses). If I could get 85Hz refresh at 1920x1440, and also have it work with all video hardware, and with my KVM switch, I'd probably use that instead. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
