I swear to gourd I had NEVER SEEN a 5:4 LCD monitor in my entire life as a child but now that I want to perfect my retro setup the ONLY MONITORS I can find at thrift stores are all 5:4. Like why. Who is responsible for this. I don’t want to spend all the money on shipping a monitor from ebay but I’m losing it.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    If this is Linux, I’m pretty sure that you can use RandR (or whatever Wayland’s analog is, if this is Wayland) to crop the visible area to whatever aspect ratio you want. Probably on Wayland the wlr-randr command can do it on wlroots-based compositors.

    I’ve done so before on X11 with an HMD that extended into the edges of my visual field, where I wanted everything in the (crisp, clear) center.

    searches

    Looks like it:

    https://man.archlinux.org/man/wlr-randr.1.en

    --mode | --custom-mode     <width>x<height>[@<refresh>Hz]

Set output resolution and, optionally, refresh rate.

--pos <x>,<y>

Position the output with absolute layout coordinates.
    • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      It’s gonna be for one of those computers that remakes the pc-xt with modern chips.

      Edit: NuXT from monotech