Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > >> Peter Arremann wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 22 March 2005 11:08, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >>>> I'm running KDE on FC3 using a Dell 2005FPW at 1680x1050. The problem >>>> is that it _looks_ like its running at a much lower resolution. >>> >>> Can you confirm your resolution? Execute "xwininfo -root" and look at >>> the width and height? >> >> Yes, the width/height is 1680x1050. >> >> Actually, I've always kind of noticed that similar resolutions always >> look >> smaller/sharper in Windows. Whats up with that? Its an extra $700 for >> the next highest resolution for my monitor...=( > > fonts? or everything? Everything. Window boarders, icons, etc seem bigger than they should be at this resolution. Fonts, of course, I can adjust to whatever size I want, but they still seems a tad big for their point size and are sometimes not as crisp as I think they should be. > if your lcd panel is not set to it's native resolution/refresh rate then > it will either be scaling or some kind of pulldown. scaling will produce > nasty artifacts unless the scaled resolution is a divisor of the native > resolution. 800x600 for example scales evenly to 1600x1200. It is set to its native resolution. > font's are of course anit-aliased in difeerent ways on each platform so > there so substantial variation in thaose tha has nothing to do with the > choosen resolution... > >>> Peter. -- C
