[cumbria_lug] Quite Incredible!

[Luke Antins]

I think I'd have just edited the xorg config myself.
Though I did go through a period where I used a resolution much bigger 
then my screen and scrolled around.
But that was with a much smaller screen. I'm rather chuffed with my 
current 23" monitors.

L

Roger Cope wrote:
> 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
>>      
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