Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:11:23 BST Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote:
> >>>> Now the monitor on my main rig is a bit older too. Maybe 6 or 7 > >>>> years??? Should newer monitors be set to a higher number for DPI? DPI does not depend on age, but only on physical characteristics, of course. > >>> Strictly speaking, the pixel density of an on-screen digital image is > >>> referred to as Pixels Per Inch (PPI), but the term DPI which refers to a > >>> printed image of ink Dots Per Inch has stuck. > >>> > >>> In addition, there is the physical pixel density of your monitor and the > >>> rendered pixel density of the X11 image(s). Tweaking the latter allows > >>> you to scale the display and make images look larger than the native > >>> monitor resolution. > > Is this your monitor? > > > > https://www.samsung.com/us/business/computing/monitors/flat/32--s30b-fhd-75hz-amd-freesync-monitor-ls32b300nwnxgo/#specs > > > > If the screen is 27.5" wide and 15.47 high, then at a native 1,920 x 1,080 > > pixel resolution the DPI would be approx. 70x70. However, if you're happy > > with the way it looks @80x80, then that's a good setting. After all, > > you're > > the one looking at it! :-) > > > Actually, mine is a LS32B304NWN. I'm not sure what the difference is > between 300 and 304. There may just be a minor version change but > display is the same. If I look at the Samsung pages: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/flat/32--s30b-fhd-75hz-amd-freesync-monitor-ls32b300nwnxgo/ https://www.samsung.com/us/business/computing/monitors/flat/32--s30b-series-with-dp-cable-ls32b304nwnxgo/ then the difference is in the caption: the 304 comes with a DP cable. > It's hi res and a good deal. :-D Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″. > Compared to the HUGE display, yea, it looks good. The reason I was > asking if that is correct is this, maybe it should be set to, just > guessing, 128 x 128 but some other setting makes the picture the right > size, not HUGE. If 70 x 70 or 80 x 80 is a setting that the monitor is > designed for and ideal, then that is fine. Well technically, a monitor is not designed for, but designed with a specific number. It is determined by the size of its physical pixels. > Monitors, even the old CRTs, have resolutions and settings they work > best at. True, at bigger pictures (meaning more pixels), the frame rate went down and the CRT started to visibly flicker. So the sweet spot was at the highest resolution for which a comfortably high framerate could be maintained. I was too little in the CRT era to know the exact reason, but there are many to choose from: - insufficient GPU power to deliver enough pixels per second - limited bandwidth in the display cable - the monitor couldn’t keep up - the CRT’s pixel pitch in the phosphor screen > I read once where a > person had a monitor that had a great picture at 60Hz refresh. Even tho > it would work at 75Hz, the picture wasn't as good. It seems that > something didn't like that 75Hz setting. That person used the 60Hz > setting. Some things are picky that way. Higher isn't always better. How long ago was that? If it was in the VGA era, maybe the analog circuits weren’t good enough and produced a bad signal. > I may try that 70 setting. Odds are, just like the difference between > 60 and 75Hz refresh rate, I likely won't be able to tell the > difference. Time will tell tho. Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite sublte, you might not even notice 90 Hz. But chaing DPI from 80 to 70 will mean an increase in fonts by 14 %. > By the way, I booted the rig up when I went to heat up supper and was > downloading new messages. It booted to a normal screen. I think it is > at least being consistent now. Before, it was hit or miss, mostly > miss. Given how good things are at just working, I'm surprised that the > correct setting wasn't used automatically. I'd think it should be. > Maybe that is a bug???? > > Now to go eat supper. I hope the monitor comes in soon. I’m confused. I thought the new one has already arrived and is the one where everything was HUGE. %-) -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. People who are not convex with foreign words should not renovate with them.
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