Widescreen Optimum Use

[Stephen]

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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. 

My widescreen monitors work fine without any effort on my part. Now, I am using the latest Ubuntu.

My guess is that upgrading would solve your problem.

And the time to upgrade would be much less than solving the problem in the current version.

Stephen

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