Widescreen Optimum Use

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:11:26PM +0000, 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.

So find the setting in your desktop manager for the background image
and turn of stretching, or use a widescreen background image that fits
the actual screen size.

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

On KDE fot the desktop image setting, I see 'Scaled' which stretches
the image to the whole screen.  'Scaled keep proportions' which scales
it up but keeps the shape and puts borders on the sides or top/bottom.
'sdcaled and crop' which scales it until the screen is filled keeping
the shape and cutting off the sides or top/bottom if any part sticks
outside the screen.  'centered' doesn't scale at all and just puts the
image in the middle of the screen.  tiles repeats it, tiled and centered
puts it in the middle and fills with copies around it.

Gnome should have similar options.

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Len Sorensen
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