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

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:28:34 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 6/16/25 16:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:52:35 -0700, John Ames wrote:
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... the more you "scale up" high-resolution displays to account
for pixel density, the more physical eye-travel becomes an issue,
which is another annoying property of widescreen displays.

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Gosh, you make it sound like our eyes weren’t designed to look at
an entire field of view. Do your eyes really have to physically
travel from one side of the screen to the other? I normally leave
mine inside my head, and use the rotation muscles that they come
with to orient them in a range of directions.

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Those muscles like all others can tire. Mine tire with normal use
and I have only a 17 inch display.

It’s not the eyeball-moving muscles that get tired. They are working
essentially all the time (an appreciable part of each second, every
second) while you’re awake, and even a lot of the time while you’re
asleep.

The tiredness comes from trying to concentrate on a display that isn’t
set up for comfortable use. I would look into that if I were you:
posture, surroundings, brightness, contrast, sharpness, colour scheme
... all play their part.

More than once, I have come across ancient LCD monitors that had
particular trouble showing the colour red: any red text turned into an
illegible fuzzy blob. Not sure why red seemed particularly prone to
this ...

I would go to a larger display and tile windows displays on it then
shifting but I got swindled out of my savings recently and am
economizing for the next year or so.

Sorry to hear about that. It seems to be a worldwide problem. Here the
banks are running concerted ad campaigns on TV, in malls etc to warn
customers about the kinds of things to watch out for. In some cases
the banks themselves have been shown, in rulings by our Banking
Ombudsman, to be at fault, and so had to reimburse the customers.