16x9 aspect ratio display

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon Nov 1 13:16:08 UTC 2004


jdow wrote:
> A means to magnify the screen by non-integer values might be useful if
> that in itself did not introduce it's own fuzz.

In case someone doesn't know, Ctrl+Alt plus the plus or minus keys *on
the numeric keypad* cycle through the resolutions defined in the X
configuration file. The desktop resolution doesn't change, though: you
get to use the mouse to scroll around the screen.

So if you normally run in 1600 by 1200, you can go down to 640 by 480 to
take a look at the details.

I like using this for reading webcomics, which *do* get fuzzy on 1600 by
1200 on a 17" CRT, and obviously don't get scaled up by Mozilla.

Hope this helps,

James.

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