I purchased a 17" monitor with 1280X1024 resolution. That resolution makes my text and pictures to small. I need to run 1024X768. However 1024X768 doesn't look very good. The detail is not sharp. Is ther anyway to decrease the viewed resolution without reducing the video cards resolution? I'm having a tough time explaining this so if you don't understand and maybe I can answer some questions. Thanks for your time.
Well ... it's probably not quite what you mean, but you can set up X so the physical display is a window into a larger, virtual display ... so you can see (as an example) a 640x480 area of a 1280X1024 display. Exactly how you do it depends on how your distro installs X, but usually this option gets offered as part of a configuration dialog.
You would probably do better, though, to figure out why 1024x768 is unsatisfactory. With no information provided about the underlying hardware, it's hard even to ask meaningful questions beyond the obvious ones -- what video card, what physical display, what version of X, what X server, what Linux distro?
The other suggestion someone made, to fiddlg with the refresh rate, might be a good one ... but the problem description is so vague that it's hard to know.
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