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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?"
yeah, and everything looks CLUNKY AS HELL when you do that. It's not like Quartz on OSX where everything scales properly. only the text gets bigger, everything else stays the same size, which means everything gets way F'd up. Hopefully they'll get this fixed in future versions...
Turn on Zoom. Keep zooming until you can read the screen.
If you don't have a Mac...
Change the resolution. That works well too.
Or use a UI hack, change the font size. That works as well.
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