Originally posted by nopoop
Wish I could. You and Hajo are the only ones I know that have a 1280 desktop.
My desktop is 1280x1024, as well.
There's a logical reason for a 1280 desktop. What is it ??
I have a Samsung 191T 19" LCD display; its resolution is 1280x1024. When you set a CRT to a lower resolution than its maximum, it changes the electron beam sweep so that it draws fewer lines, and modulates fewer pixels in each line. Thus the pixels on the screen. On an LCD display, there are always as many screen pixels as the display resolution; in order to display another resolution, the other resolution has to be mapped to the screen resolution. In the case of 1280x1024 vs. 1024x768, each pixel column in the 1024x768 displaymaps to 1.25 columns of pixels on the screen, and each pixel row in the 1024x768 displaymaps to 1.33 rows of pixels on the screen. This means that either the pixel values get interpolated -- making the image fuzzy -- or every 4th column and 3rd row is double-sized -- making the image look wrong. LCD displays work best when the display resolution is an integral multiple of the screen resolution-- thus, a 1280x1024 display would show a 640x512 image by drawing each pixel as a 2x2 block of pixels, and could display a 640x480 image the same way by 'letterboxing' it -- leaving 32 pixels at the top and bottom of the display black. But 1024x768 doesn't display cleanly on 1280x1024, because no such integer ratio exists.
