[PLUG-TALK] Much has been said about the utility of wide screens
Keith Lofstrom
keithl at kl-ic.com
Mon Jul 11 10:23:29 UTC 2022
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 13:04:25 -0400 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:
>It seems that these guys have heard some of the wide screens complains
>- 16:18 screen format with decent (OK-ish) color gamut
>
>https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b
>
>What you think....?
On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 02:50:50PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> How do you set it up on Linux? Maybe xrandr? Do desktop environments
> allow a user to set size of icons, text, etc. for the advertised
> resolution? I have two computers with UHD monitors, and it took a lot
> of work to get them usable, and some things are still not quite right.
> I would bet that setting up this thing would be major bit of
> frustration.
Similar first and second thoughts: (1) desktop stuff too
small, and (2) John's struggles with dense-pixel desktop
stuff too small, I wonder if he solved that?
My THIRD thought was using a screen magnifier like "magnus"
as the workspace, and moving that around a huge desktop
with MANY open applications on it. "Workspace switcher"
without the separate workspaces. This would be handy
for cutting and pasting between open applications, or
watching scrolling activity in MANY open xterms,
"tail -f "-ing logfiles. (text pun!)
Perhaps someone with too much money and time can buy one of
these LG pix-zilla screens and learn how to make this work.
Keith
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