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Old 8th May 2008
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If you have a LCD panel, then you have no choice as to your resolution - It has to be the native resolution of the monitor. Trust me - You do not want the monitor to be resizing - the output is horrid. If you think you have eyestrain looking at your monitor now, just wait until it is all fuzzy, with weird aliasing artifacts.

The solution is to adjust fonts, icon sizes and suchlike in the GUI. The first step is to set the DPI - either in the GUI, or in the xorg.conf file. Then it is a question of adjusting anything that is too small.

The day will come when GUIs will resize gracefully on whatever display they are given. Only then will we get the 150+ dpi resolutions that we need for really good text rendition.
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