[PLUG-TALK] Much has been said about the utility of wide screens
Tomas Kuchta
tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 17:49:41 UTC 2022
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 06:28 Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
I use recent KDE or GNOME - they both use SVG scalable icons and it is
trivially configurable in terms of sizing for stuff in 'higher' DPI
screens. I generally dislike messing with config which I cannot automate by
scripts every time I reinstall. So, I mostly stay in distro's default
modern DE (vanilla recent Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuSE)
So, I do not have high resolution problem and have no idea how would one
work it out in Keith's/John's environment.
I do appreciate value and ergonomics of higher DPI screens, precisely
because of the fact that eyesight is only getting worse and I like
productivity. In my book productivity includes time spend configuring
stuff, so I am unwilling to spend days/weeks measing about.
Anyway, when I was posting about the screen, I was wondering what will be
the reaction from people who expressed strong interest in taller screens.
Hope that helps, -T
>
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