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My eyes don't work in HD !

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mgt6910 over 12 years ago

I find the Pi's HD-text size too small at 1080 resolution on  a monitor and Atrix.   If I set the resolution to 720 in config.txt, it;s better, but that

lowers the graphical resolution too much.

 

Is there any possibility of  changing screen resolution on the fly ? The ideal would be to boot into 720, then change resolution to 1080 inside startx

(and revert on exit...)

 

It is possible to select text-size in the lxde-terminal, but that's no help at login.

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    Problemchild over 12 years ago

    Malcolm you still see in HD it's just that you can't  focus right up close also a lot of cheap screens are pritty crap anyway so it all depends what the limiting factor is!!

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    Problemchild over 12 years ago

    Malcolm you still see in HD it's just that you can't  focus right up close also a lot of cheap screens are pritty crap anyway so it all depends what the limiting factor is!!

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    Problemchild over 12 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    While we are at it  consider an IPS monitor rather than a cheap TN the quality is much better  most are Matt rather than shiney like many cheap monitors which is easier on  the eyes.

    The shiney stuff is to make movies look good but we aint interested in that here

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