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Window Managers for High Resolution Displays?
cfish asks: "Recently, I was told by a manager at a major monitor maker that CRTs are phasing out. I have a very weak eye and I read text at 1024x768 on a 21" monitor, sitting 2 feet away. Each alphabet is about 1/4" tall. What makes me panic is the fact that LCDs have fixed resolution and they are simply too small for me to read icons and widget text, like Microsoft's. This is a great chance for Linux to get a head start in a certain market: older folks and those who have eye strain problems. Generally speaking, not many people can read Microsoft's widget text on a 150dpi display, which may explain why no one buys them even that they are available. Imagine how frustrating it could be for medical display (x-rays), cad, image editing to have a high resolution realistic image but cannot read the menu and text. If someone can come up with a Window manager to beat MS on 200dpi displays, no doubt this will capture a strong following in image related applications. I have read about these debates 5 years ago. What has been done about it?"
Just change your font sizes, problem solved, every wm imaginable lets you do that.
Besides, old ladies buy CRT's... they just run them at 800x600 anyway (Looks like shit)
"The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else." - Bush 05
Make your fonts bigger, you dipstick. In Windows XP, right-click on the desktop, click Properties, click Appearance, and under Font Size pick Large or Extra Large. Oooooooooh difficult. Is your brain as impaired as your vision?
I have no idea what the article writer was saying... whether he is just stupid or just another anti-MS troll. Increasing font sizes (and icon sizes) under Windows is incredibly easy, a thousand-thousand fold easier than a comparing Linux window manager.... even the "easy" ones... ever seen the configuration page for Sawfish? Christ!
How many years until you are a senior citizen? Eyesight failing?
By your comment, I'd guess you are around 20.
I can think of many good linux hackers who are in their 40s, and certainly know a number of hardcore linux/unix guys who are in their mid to late 50s...
So what was that about no senior citizens? Maybe you won't be going out to teach gramps linux, but there are a number of people who WILL very shortly be having trouble with their eyesight.. so the question is very valid.
You're distorting the shape of your desktop - didn't it occur to you that 1280x1024 is a 5:4 ratio whereas 1024x768 is 4:3?
Just what kind of a geek are you?
That was classic intercourse!