On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:33 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 1/20/06, Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:16 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I have often felt that it is difficult to read text on my FC4 machine, > > > but I thought that it may be a monitor issue (Proview 774). Today I > > > temporarily connected the monitor to an XP Home machine and the text > > > was perfectly clear. Is there anything that I can do to clean up the > > > text? Here is part of a screenshot: > > > http://dotancohen.com/text.png > > > > The above looked fine on my end. Not sure what exactly your looking at. > > You might want to include what your seeing with yoru desktop or > > something and try a screenshot of that. > > > > Is your monitor selected as the correct one and video? > > > > Mike Chambers > > Madisonville, KY > > > > "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!" > > I think that I selected it during the install. In Control Center -> > Periferia -> Display (translated) I can set the screen resolution and > refresh rate ( 1024*768 , 85 mHz). But I see no mention of the model. > > I provided the screen shot to see if my fonts are bad- I know that > there are anti-aliased and aliased fonts. Of course, what you see when > you look at the screen shot is what you would see if you connected > your monitor to my machine- not what I see on my monitor. I just > wanted to eliminte the possibility that I may have misconfigured the > fonts or something. ---- - capture an entire desktop as the image you referenced has no context so it looks as one might expect. - what desktop manager? KDE? GNOME? - what program is this an issue? (which mail or oowriter or ??) Craig