Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:23:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

I think the 15-17-19 sizes were introduced with the flatter tubes of
the later 1990ies, my Panasonic 20 Inch tube was rounder than those.

Those “flatter” ones would have been the cylindrical cross section, made
by companies other than Sony after Sony’s Trinitron patent expired. I
think the Mitsubishi ones were called “Diamondtron”.

On a tube, you could choose the resolution yourself.

The multiscanning CRTs -- that was another breakthrough. It was a lot
harder to destroy your monitor by feeding it scan rates it couldn’t
handle! NEC pioneered its “MultiSync” models; not sure if it was able to
enforce an exclusive patent, or whether it just let it be freely
licensable, because competitors from other vendors appeared fairly
quickly.