Widescreen Optimum Use

[john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]

Hi all;

I recently bought an LCD monitor for my mother-in-law. She was looking for a square monitor, but all there is nowadays is the widescreen. It's a Samsung 21.5" screen.

She is using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (I know, I should upgrade it for her one of these days). With the widescreen, the background picture gets spread out and looks very unnatural. From the settings on the monitor itself, I restricted the screen to a square size. The background looks good, but there's a lot of real estate unnecessarily lost.

What's the best way to handle a widescreen monitor? I'd be happy with having the background picture cut back to a square, but would like the icons and any open applications to use the full screen.

I've never heard anyone complain about this before, so it must be something silly I've done or overlooked. 

Thanks for any help.

John.
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