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Question: Resolution Ratios and fonts/icons?

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Mullzy

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I finally upgraded to a 19" monitor and am loving it (Viewsonic P95f+) . I have a question about desktop resolutions and their effect on your font/icons.

Through the *ages* I've always run my desktops at a ratio of 1.33 like 99% of people: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc... (you get the idea) With my new 19" monitor I immediately went to 1280x960 which is also a 1.33 ratio. A weird thing happened though... my desktop icons and fonts in general really seemed *stretched* or *tall*. I couldn't get it to look right with minor tweaking of the horizontal/vertical settings so I ended up using 1280x1024 (1.25 ratio). Even though the desktop seems to be square, the icons are not.

Just seems weird to me... any comments? At work I use 1280x960 (Windows NT) and the desktop/icons look fine. Am I missing something easy?


*IDEA* Of course... after typing this up something has just popped into my head which might work. I have a zoom feature on my monitor which I might be able to use to fix this. If I can *crush* the vertical size a little and square out my icons, maybe I can zoom in to produce a large enough image to fill my monitor screen.

thanks,
Mullzy
 
Bump!

Anyone have some input? I ended up going back to 1280x1024 to get the square look back on my icons and fonts. Just seems really strange to me.
 
I don't know why your screen is doing that -- it shouldn't "scale" a non-4:3 resolution to force it to be the right one. Did you accidentally turn on the "zoom" mode (or is it on by default)? It might be trying to stretch the 1280x960 out to fill the entire size of the screen, which will make everything look nonsquare.
 
It's baffling me as well. The zoom as no effect on the shape of the picture, it basically seems to increase/decrease the horizontal/vertical sizes equally. I tried my squeeze approach for kicks and it did work, but there was really no point so I just went back to 1280x1024. Once I decreased the Vertical size enough to make the fonts/icons appear square, I had about 2cm of black unused space at the top and bottom of the screen. Kind of a weird Wide Screen effect.

bah...
 
Download the old Nokia monitor test program from HERE. Set the screen to 1152x864 (4:3) format and set up the geometry controls on your new monitor. Once set, check if the circles are round and squares are square; if so, everything is ok. If not, you might have a bad monitor. Could it be that your monotor at work is out of adjustment and now that you see a "normal" view, yours looks "wrong?
 
Thanks for the link to that utility... it's great.

I can see my problem now. The extreme left of my screen is not creating the right shape. The circles in the top and bottom left are elongating into an oval shape while the right hand side ones are very close to perfect circles. My monitor has only been on for about 15-20 minutes so I'm going to set it warm up some more and see if I can get things to shape up a little better.

It's too bad... the color on this monitor is great... very black black, very white white with nice rich color.
 
Glad you were able to see where the problem is. It seems to never fail, color is good and geometry is off or the geometry is good and the color is bad. Sounds like you might need to do an RMA. Good luck!
 
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