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Displays - Apple Mac vs. IBM PC

I bet the Apple still have a huge leg up on PCs when it comes to displays. Yeah, they both have the same hardware these days, but the way the softwar e manages things is so much better on the Mac. I remember using a Mac many years ago and everything from top to bottom had a consistent look and feel . On the PC every program is in it's own world with unique fonts, sizes an d windows.

I had this machine fairly tuned up and could get most things done without e ye strain and yet still got to treat the display as if it could show more t han one window at a time. Then I fired up an HDL tool and the fonts are al l so small it was impossible to read them without surgeon's magnifiers. So I finally gave in and went for the Windows screen adjustment. Seems I alr eady had it set to 125%. So I thought 150% might do well... adjust, reboot and the screen looked like I had dropped the resolution to 1024 instead of 1920 pixels wide. Everything was so huge! Ok, so I backed that off to 13

5% and it seems to be a bit better, the new app can be read with only a bit of eye strain. But now I have to go into every app and tweak details to g et it to look right again.

On the Mac, if I could read one app, I could read them all! Too bad so muc h engineering software won't run on the Mac.

So how does Linux handle things like font sizes? I'm thinking it is really the wild west or it forces the user to manually muck with all the settings on every program. At least I can get a lot more engineering tools to run under Linux than on the Mac. I really do need to try Linux sometime.

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Most of the time. Alt Ctl + or - will work.

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Is that Apple or PC?

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So, what do these two keys do exactly???

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Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Way better than the cursory glance Apple gives it (displays). They are more concerned with packaging.

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Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Your x windows config file (varies form distro to distro)has a list of useable screen arrays for your machine (or it should). As you strike those keys, the x window manager steps up or down into the next or previous listing in that config file.

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I truly don't think you understood a thing I wrote.

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But look at the colors that thing makes! My LG could never show colors like that. There's probably hummingbird ultraviolet over in the corner and I can't even see it!

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Jose Curvo

One side effect I noticed is that with the larger zoom under windows 10, so me of the programs seems to display fuzzier text. Does anyone know how Win dows adjusts the screen when the zoom is turned up? Does it instruct the a pps to draw everything larger or does it just magnify what the apps draw to make it bigger on the screen after it has already been turned into pixels?

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Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Do you have a 4K monitor and a 4K capable video adapter?

If so, all zooms of text and window draw lines should be crisp.

A zoom a jpeg will always have jaggies.

If you zoom your browser ( a different 'zoom engine'), you will see fuzzie or jaggy sites if you zoom too high.

IF you do have a 4K display, however, you should have no problem because they start at like 27" (or used to). So unless yu sit across the room from your computer...

My Lenovo 4K laptop (17") is set to 225%.

Some apps had tool bar problems years ago, and some still do because they have yet to be updated for hi res display arrays.

So my MAMEUI emulator front end has a row of tabs right under the tool bar that is only a third as tall as it needs to be. I can barely see the tops of the tabs, but each one displays the tab info beneath just fine. So I have to guess history or PCB or cabinet or marquee, etc. Getting hold of the author will likely yield a "yeah I have known about it for a while". He never fixed a font problem from before the 4K era either... oh well.

Skype was owned by MS when I got my first 4K display. It would not display right, and they said it would if I upgraded to Windows 10. On one machine I did. But the Windows 7 machine would be getting no skype update that solved the display font issue. All that is past now since most do use Win 10 online if they have any brains.

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Also, if you previously had wallpapers that were a lowers res, they will look bad at high res zoomed out (in?). That is why ALL the pics I posted on the site I gave are high res images and make excellent wallpapers (I 'scroll' through mine every ten seconds).

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