From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DweHm-0001Gj-Ob for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:04:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OAxeZC013386; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:59:40 GMT Received: from krebs.no-ip.biz (adsl-data-3.84-47-2.telecom.sk [84.47.2.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6OAkmN9023944 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:46:48 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by krebs.no-ip.biz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB4C80BEB5 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:47:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E371C8.6010506@pronay.sk> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:47:36 +0200 From: Michal Pronay User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor References: <20050721082452.GA7199@sympatico.ca> <42DF6345.3040306@skynet.be> <5491fade050721052826e361ef@mail.gmail.com> <20050723122327.GA7184@sympatico.ca> <20050724053644.GA7222@sympatico.ca> <20050724102132.GA10254@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20050724102132.GA10254@saltmine.radix.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 48c51cd9-5371-4e4f-860b-95afa0a75c07 X-Archives-Hash: 1210dc8c33ce3e581635e074ab68fb27 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. > Sorry i missed the point. Why would you change the native resolution on a LCD monitor to get bigger fonts, when you can change the font size to a bigger one and leave the resolution native ? ;o) M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list