Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Ross
On 02/12/2010 06:39 AM, Tobias Ringström wrote: Why would anyone even want user specific display settings? Are users > expected to move monitors around between logging in? Per user settings > might be useful as a feature, but it's a very unfriendly default, or am > I missing something? In my house

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > I use the big Dell WFP3008, which doubles up pixels quite > nicely to 1280 x 800.  Mind you, are you sure you don't just > need new glasses? It's not that I can't focus. It's that I don't want to have to. Focussing all day long on text on

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Marcel Rieux wrote: >> 2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström : Thanks for the trouble but see my answer to Tobias Ringström. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Marcel Rieux
2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström : > On 02/12/2010 08:47 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> I'm trying in vain to get Twinview to work with NVIDIA's proprietary >> drivers. You know, images that show in a 5x4 format on my Viewsonic >> monitor showing fullscreen in 5x4 format on my Sony TV and images that >> are

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 02/12/2010 12:17 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: >> What I've been looking for, for a long time, yet am unable to find, is >> a very large, yet LOW resolution LCD display. >> >> What I would like to see are great big fat square sharp pixels, with >> great big, sharply

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-12 01:56:46, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > What I've been looking for, for a long time, yet am unable to find, > is a very large, yet LOW resolution LCD display. > > What I would like to see are great big fat square sharp pixels, with > great big, sharply defined and completely non-

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > What I've been looking for, for a long time, yet am unable to find, is > a very large, yet LOW resolution LCD display. > > What I would like to see are great big fat square sharp pixels, with > great big, sharply defined and completely non-antialiased text. if yo

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: > 2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström : > >> I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia >> graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the >> first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using >> Nvidia's closed sou

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread birger
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 09:45 +0100, Tobias Ringström wrote: > On 02/12/2010 09:26 AM, birger wrote: > > Placement of screens is a different story. No, users are not supposed to > > move their screens around. What they frequently do is move the computers > > around. You know - laptops? For laptops yo

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread birger
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 00:27 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > GnuStep isn't supported on Fedora because of some manner of Political > Insanity. Cocoa and GnuStep software is always packaged in small > directory trees known as bundles; all of the files that on a > traditional *NIX box are s

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Tobias Ringström
On 02/12/2010 09:26 AM, birger wrote: > Placement of screens is a different story. No, users are not supposed to > move their screens around. What they frequently do is move the computers > around. You know - laptops? For laptops you definitely want users to > control placement of screens, right? A

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread birger
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 07:39 +0100, Tobias Ringström wrote: > Why would anyone even want user specific display settings? Are users > expected to move monitors around between logging in? Per user settings > might be useful as a feature, but it's a very unfriendly default, or am > I missing somethi

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Tim wrote: > Why do people repeatedly get this so wrong?  (Users and those making the > systems.)  The pixel count and resolution should be set to match the > display card and the monitor, it's the FONT SIZE and graphics sizes that > you should change. My weary e

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-12 Thread Tobias Ringström
On 02/12/2010 08:47 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > I'm trying in vain to get Twinview to work with NVIDIA's proprietary > drivers. You know, images that show in a 5x4 format on my Viewsonic > monitor showing fullscreen in 5x4 format on my Sony TV and images that > are 16x9 filling up all the TV screen.

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 22:56 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > It would make sense for the cathode ray tube multisync monitors from > the days of yore. > > Obsessive geek types could set the resolution very high to fit more > source code on the screen... > > ... while those with poor eyes

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
2010/2/12 Tobias Ringström : > I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia > graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the > first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using > Nvidia's closed source driver, and I didn't even h

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Ed Greshko
Tobias Ringström wrote: > I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia > graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the > first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using > Nvidia's closed source driver, and I didn't even hav

Re: Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
2010/2/11 Tobias Ringström : > Why would anyone even want user specific display settings? Are users > expected to move monitors around between logging in? Per user settings > might be useful as a feature, but it's a very unfriendly default, or am > I missing something? It would make sense for the

Display settings should not be per user

2010-02-11 Thread Tobias Ringström
I'm using two 1280x1024 displays rotated 90 degrees with an Nvidia graphics card, and I was very impressed by Fedora 12, because it was the first Fedora release where I could get this setup working without using Nvidia's closed source driver, and I didn't even have to fiddle with xorg.conf. Aft