Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:45:56AM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > > 050723 michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote:
> > > > LCD monitors are fixed-rate,
> > > > so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like
> > > > with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution
> > > > and then display at a lower rate if you wish.
> > >
> > > Why would you want to display at lower resolution than the best available
> > > ?
> >
> > to make the fonts look bigger.
> 
> Why don't you change your default font to a larger font instead?

bitmap fonts only go so big - and there's not a matching bold for many of
the larger sizes.  I'm certain that some people sending bug-reports are
using lower screen resolutions because they're finding odd problems with
the small font sizes.  Some of those are because of hardware limitations,
but it is also likely that some are using lower screen resolutions because
the effective font sizes are larger (and more readable).

Of course if one chooses only scalable fonts (with the corresponding
performance degradation), this is irrelvant.

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