InterfaceLift FTW. I'm thinking of getting a monitor and hooking it to my laptop before I buy a new PC. Should be able to handle it if I don't do any 3D.
My monitor is bigger than 1080p in terms of height, because it's 16:10 instead of 16:9. I'm able to see HD movies in their full glory, and I still need letterboxing!.
My monitor is bigger than 1080p in terms of height, because it's 16:10 instead of 16:9. I'm able to see HD movies in their full glory, and I still need letterboxing!.
I've got 1440x900. That's also 16:10. What's up with that?
1080p means that the video has 1080 lines of pixels. The width of 1080p is 1920 pixels, assuming it's widescreen. 1080p is 1920 x 1080. My monitor is 1920 x 1200.
1080p means that the video has 1080 lines of pixels. The width of 1080p is 1920 pixels, assuming it's widescreen. 1080p is 1920 x 1080. My monitor is 1920 x 1200.
I know. I was commenting on the 16:10 aspect ratio. It seems to be exclusive to widescreendisplays.
Don't go widescreen though. It's hard as nuts to find wallpapers in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Who says you have to restrict yourself to 16:9 wallpapers? So you will miss a bit on the top and bottom on 16:10 wallpapers, so what? For the majority of wallpapers, if not all, that matters jack all. The same goes for non-widescreen wallpapers, there are many that you can still easily use on a widescreen monitor. Personal rule of thumb, for a widescreen monitor, be it 16:10 or 16:9, the width is important, make sure the wallpaper at least is as wide as your monitor. For 4:3 and 5:4 wallpapers, make sure the image is tall enough. Then just setting your desktop background to zoom and you are done. Scaling also works, but only for widescreen monitors, or wallpapers where the border is uniform.
Courtesy of A Forum Nineless Change, here is my new desktop!
Because my desktop organizational software does not like the resolution, I had to close it and show you my bare desktop. No, there's no gayporn.avi, don't look for it.
Also, the picture got kinda screwed up, don't know why there's blank space on the side. Meh.
@Joe: You know there are these things called folders, right? You don't have to keep buying a bigger screen to put your files on.. :P
I've been thinking about the whole vertical monitor thing and it might not be so bad. The way my desk is doesn't leave much room for moving to the side.
OMG, don't tell people around here that you don't want to see the entire image as first conceived in all its original aspect ratio glory.
I'm not telling people that. A wallpaper is a static image, why should you only look at it when it's your wallpaper? Basically what I said, in regards to your reference, was that one does not have to see the entire picture at all times. One surely should look at the art in its whole at least once. How can you appreciate all of the art when you only know part of it? But let us leave it at that in this thread, this is after all one about images of desktops. Of course you can also just whisper to me on this tangent.
Also, Nine: You using a portrait monitor?
No, I was fiddling with my dual screen lay-out under Ubuntu. It works great, but didn't really feel right. So at one point I changed the set-up to be laptop screen bottom, and my 5:4 monitor on top. Since they are both 1280px wide they line up great, and moving between them is much more natural. To finish it off I had to use a more fitting wallpaper, so I looked through my horizontal wallpapers folder for any that are wider than 1280 pixels. I found the one you see. I had to slim it a bit to make it look best, else the bunny got cut in half. Poor bunny.
here is my new desktop!
Oh noes! What did you do? You make the bunny all stretched! What makes that nasty white bar to the left? What's with the semi-transparent white line in the middle? Here, let me try to get you the original, if it fits on Photobucket.
I've been thinking about the whole vertical monitor thing and it might not be so bad. The way my desk is doesn't leave much room for moving to the side.
Surely your desk can fit two normal monitors side by side. As for vertical monitors, eh, I don't know. What would be the benefits to you? Or in general.
I'm currently running a laptop and thinking of getting the 20 inch Dell. If it detects rotation by itself then it'd be nice to just quickly swivel it when I want to read a whole web page at a time. Oh, I meant portrait, not vertical.
Here's my desktop post windows 7 install. I'm using a program called fences to organize my desktop icons. This was captured while behind my schools firewall, so the ping indicators are all red. The three bottom servers are DNS root servers in LA, New York City, and Tokyo. Also, I can never seem to get a ping from the FRC server. Weird.
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Also, Nine: You using a portrait monitor?
Because my desktop organizational software does not like the resolution, I had to close it and show you my bare desktop. No, there's no gayporn.avi, don't look for it.
Also, the picture got kinda screwed up, don't know why there's blank space on the side. Meh.
I've been thinking about the whole vertical monitor thing and it might not be so bad. The way my desk is doesn't leave much room for moving to the side.
EDIT: The original, as I have it.
Oh, I meant portrait, not vertical.
Here's my desktop post windows 7 install. I'm using a program called fences to organize my desktop icons. This was captured while behind my schools firewall, so the ping indicators are all red. The three bottom servers are DNS root servers in LA, New York City, and Tokyo. Also, I can never seem to get a ping from the FRC server. Weird.