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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:35:41 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:52:23 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

> I mean, of course, physical size... if the displays have a similar
> width, there is a loss in vertical space. Even if, having the same
> width, the resolution is necessarily higher and allows more detail, it
> still doesn't allow using height to display as much as in the 4:3
> display, unless your eyesight allows for it.

There are such things as large high-def LCD monitors, you know. And they 
aren’t even expensive.

Here <https://bitbucket.org/ldo17/screencalc/> is a simple Python script I 
published years ago, which lets you enter any combination of aspect ratio, 
pixel density (assumed uniform), viewing distance, diagonal, width (in 
pixels or distance), height (in pixels or distance), or total number of 
pixels, and it will compute the omitted parameters. (So long as you don’t 
overspecify, of course.)

Hmm, that could do with a man page ...