Oh, and if anyone cares, I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and compiz 1:0.8.2-0ubuntu8.1, and according to my nvidia server my 16:9 monitor is a DELL E228WFP and my 4:3 one is just being recognized as "CRT-1" -- I think it's a DELL 032DVX though I could be missing part of the code there (it's pretty old). And my TV is an Insignia... someone's using it right now so I don't really have access to see the model on that, so let me know if anyone cares and thinks it would be relevant. :p
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Randolph Baden <[email protected]> wrote: > This problem is kind of frustrating me and I think I've given up on > Google. I think compiz either can or should solve it, but I'll put it > before you all first to see what you think. > > I have two monitors; the primary has a 16:9 aspect and the secondary > has a 4:3. My machine is also next to my TV, so I split the output > from one of the monitors to the TV. For whatever reason, the (16:9) > TV and the 16:9 monitor do not support any of the same resolutions (I > think this is wrong... but I have no idea how to convince the TV > otherwise), but the TV and the 4:3 monitor do. I don't mind it too > much, since MythTV has a scaling feature that adjusts the video so > that it displays correctly on the TV rather than the monitor. > > Unfortunately, this season the only two shows I care about air at the > exact same friggin' time. Feel free to guess which two shows they are > if you want. :) Anyway, this means I'm now using Hulu a lot more > often. Both the web version and huludesktop work fine, except as you > might guess I can't convince the hulu player to change the aspect > ratio to something that would ordinarily look scrunched (and honestly, > I'm kind of surprised that MythTV supports what I'm guessing is a > pretty obscure feature). > > Oh, one final constraint. I do use the 4:3 monitor for other stuff > including coding, so I don't want to just change the aspect ratio on > there since it would strain my eyes with wide text. > > So, I guess my questions are the following: Can I do something to fix > this aspect problem? I suspect that compiz is the right place to put > this; does such a feature already exist? What I'd like is to be able > to click on the window management button and select a different aspect > ration for a window... should I just be sending this to the compiz > folks? > > Thanks, > -Randy >
