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Poor Widescreen Support
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Widescreen Support
Here are a couple screenshots of running LFS with the desktop stretched across two screens each running at 1280x1024, so 2560x1024 total

card: Radeon X1900 GT, driver: Catalyst 06.12
LFS U36

Has anyone else run it at these resolution? Did it look like this?
Attached images
2560_1024_lfs (Custom).JPG
2560_1024_lfs_menu (Custom).JPG
Well first of all I would disable the "widescreen" mode in the display settings that give you the top and bottom bars.

Second of all, since this is way wider than "regular" widescreen, the virtual guages are definitely stretched to those extremes. I had this problem when I had my 2560x1024 setup, and I ended up using a view with real guages instead.

Of course, this oversizing of the virtual guages can easily be fixed by something like a user-adjustable scaling variable of some sorts...
Ah, I didn't realize what that button did and just happened to hit while try to get it into the right mode, now it's a little better, I guess the main thing is just the analog gauges and the map being really big when they don't need to be and the car being off the screen in the preview screen.

I did find out that spanning 2 monitors can get fairly disorienting as things in the center jump left and right a couple inches across the gap between the monitors.
Quote from BrandonAGr :I did find out that spanning 2 monitors can get fairly disorienting as things in the center jump left and right a couple inches across the gap between the monitors.

Yeah it's one of the few things that made me decide on a 20 inch widescreen over a pair of 17 inchers...

I did find that it helped to move the center of the view to one monitor as opposed to having it dead center. But other than suggesting a third monitor, I don't know what else to tell ya

Poor Widescreen Support
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