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#1 2010-05-01 15:48:49

druk
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monitor or fonts issue?

Hi, I've an external monitor plug-in to the laptop by hdmi. The laptop screen looks great but the external monitor has blurry fonts, especially when it starts to reach the top edge. The external monitor has a resolution of 1680x1050 and the laptop 1920x1080.  Does my external just sucks or could be a font configuration problem?

Thanks!

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#2 2010-05-01 16:02:33

druk
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Re: monitor or fonts issue?

It was really a problem with the font that was awful.

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#3 2010-05-01 17:02:55

karol
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Re: monitor or fonts issue?

What configs do you use? Can you post them? What's the output of 'xrandr'?
Do you use both your laptop screen *and* the external at the same time or do you switch to the external?

A bit OT: what laptop gets you 1920x1080? Dell Studio? I was just looking for one w/ hi-res.

Last edited by karol (2010-05-01 18:50:34)

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#4 2010-05-01 20:34:43

brebs
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Re: monitor or fonts issue?

Check your DPI setting. I suggest you use e.g.:
Option "DPI"  "120 x 120"
That's what I use with 1920x1080.

Fonts can be tweaked - see huge fonts thread.

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#5 2010-05-01 21:55:34

ewaller
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Re: monitor or fonts issue?

druk wrote:

...but the external monitor has blurry fonts, especially when it starts to reach the top edge. The external monitor has a resolution of 1680x1050 and the laptop 1920x1080.

(Emphasis mine)

Is it an LCD or a CRT?
Were you trying to display the laptop's image on the external monitor downscaled?


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#6 2010-05-02 00:37:35

druk
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Re: monitor or fonts issue?

Thanks for the replies guys. The laptop is a sony vaio fw.  I was using lucinda and changed it to terminus and now it displays great. It could have been a dpi issue but the strange thing is that the closer to the top edge the blurred it would get. I haven't done much tweaking because the new font is much better and its not blurred. The external monitor is a lcd.

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#7 2010-05-02 10:36:16

karol
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Re: monitor or fonts issue?

Remember, terminus is not a scalable font, you need to pick the right size: 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24, 28 or 32.

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