On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 02:51 +1030, Tim 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 > > I'm not sure that you can use a screen shot in a useful way for that > sort of diagnosis. Though it looks pretty normal to me. > > I think a lot of the problem will be the different ways that Linux > smooths fonts compared to how XP draws the screen. I notice Linux looks > softer compared to other systems, too. If you turn off the aliasing, > you see that the fonts are hideously chunky. There's some strange > dependence on aliasing that other systems don't have. > > The best advice that I can think of is to try tweaking the font size a > bit to see if that helps, and/or the font face. > My monitor occasionally gets blurry as well - the source of the problem is the rats nest of cables behind my PC and some sort of electrical interference with some cheap extension cables that I am using. If get behind my PC and straighten out the rats nest of cables my monitor blurriness goes away. Make sure that that is not the source of your problems. Charlie
