Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-05 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 2020-08-04 19:48, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: On 2020-08-04 16:43, Tim via users wrote: Tim: You may want to play with aliasing controls for font rendering. Eyal Lebedinsky: I need to look into this (fonts) but hoped the problem is elsewhere. Perhaps your monitor doesn't have the tradition

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-04 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 19:48 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >>> BTW this is what the pixels look like: >>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~eyaleb/attachments/20200801/dsc08774-part1.jpg >>> Looks like BGR left-to-right? Should that matter? >> It's kind of hard to tell, but looking at the grouping, with

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-04 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 2020-08-04 16:43, Tim via users wrote: Tim: You may want to play with aliasing controls for font rendering. Eyal Lebedinsky: I need to look into this (fonts) but hoped the problem is elsewhere. Perhaps your monitor doesn't have the traditional RGB (red green blue) pixel grouping? It mi

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 11:15 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > However, changing the DPI from the default(96) to 98 makes > the effect almost unnoticeable. It has no effect on xterm or > thunderbird. Some programs (thunderbird, firefox) have their own rendering engines. Monitors only have one DPI, t

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> You may want to play with aliasing controls for font rendering. Eyal Lebedinsky: > I need to look into this (fonts) but hoped the problem is elsewhere. >> Perhaps your monitor doesn't have the traditional RGB (red green >> blue) pixel grouping? It might be in BGR sequence (your photo >>

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 2020-08-04 02:35, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 11:53, Eyal Lebedinsky mailto:fed...@eyal.emu.id.au>> wrote: On 2020-08-03 23:03, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 21:58 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >> I recently started using a 4k TV as a monitor.

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 11:53, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > On 2020-08-03 23:03, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 21:58 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > >> I recently started using a 4k TV as a monitor. The video is natively > >> 4k from the on-board Intel i7. > TV's rarely make good moni

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 2020-08-03 23:03, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 21:58 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I recently started using a 4k TV as a monitor. The video is natively 4k from the on-board Intel i7. I noticed that I often get difficult to read text. This is even worse when I use reverse video

Re: coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 21:58 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I recently started using a 4k TV as a monitor. The video is natively > 4k from the on-board Intel i7. > > I noticed that I often get difficult to read text. This is even worse > when I use reverse video (black bg). > > Looking closer I c

coloured text distorted on 4k monitor

2020-08-03 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I recently started using a 4k TV as a monitor. The video is natively 4k from the on-board Intel i7. I noticed that I often get difficult to read text. This is even worse when I use reverse video (black bg). Looking closer I can see that the image changes as I shift the window one pixel sidewa