[cumbria_lug] Quite Incredible!

[Roger Cope]

It was simply that CentOS couldn't reconcile my monitor pixel size and 
my display size. It knew that the monitor was widescreen (1680 x 1050) 
but wouldn't offer that as an available desktop size so I was forced to 
use a slightly larger desktop size and scroll into the corners.

I didn't really put any effort into hacking about with the X settings 
because Googling about linux/centos and widescreen monitors brought up a 
1001 different solutions. I'm sure it would have been fixable eventually 
after breaking X a few times but frankly, it should be fixable in the 
GUI or automagically.

Luke Antins wrote:
> Roger Cope wrote:
>> Up to version 5.3 and CentOS finally supports my widescreen monitor
>> properly.
>>    
> I'm curious, what wasn't supported correctly?
> I would have thought setting the resolution and mayhaps playing with 
> your colour settings too, would be enough for most monitors? :-)
> 
> Luke