Dell 2005FPW runs at 1680x1050 but looks much lower...?

[Joel Jaeggli]

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?

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.

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
>
>

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