simple user question re resolution

**schwartzie** · 06-08-2012, 05:36 AM

my employer is too poor to buy me a second monitor, so I bought one; it is about 1 inch smaller than my primary screen.

Is there any way to get identical resolution on the two screens so I'm not constantly resizing windows I slide them from the primary to small3r secondary screen? (the preset resolutions dont "match")

**HackerX** · 06-08-2012, 05:50 AM

Depends on the monitors. I assume they don't already have matching resolutions so you might be able to set the bigger one to match the smaller one. LCD's don't like not being in their native resolution though, so it won't look so good.

My monitors (home & work) are the same situation. IMO, I think in the end you'll just (have to) get used to it. If you have Win 7, the keyboard shortcuts for moving and snapping windows helps this considerably.

bobabrowncoat · 06-08-2012, 06:08 AM

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way to do that. You would need to have two identical monitors to be sure they "match." I've been waiting for years for someone to finally bring a working solution for
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**12ax7** · 06-09-2012, 07:35 PM

You can probably set the one with the larger resolution to run the same as the smaller (like HackerX said, won't look real sharp on the resized one), but I still don't think that would solve your problem.
As you move a window from the bigger monitor to the smaller one, the window will stay the same "percentage" of screen, but since you're moving it to a smaller monitor, it will appear to shrink.

What you really need to do is match up the pixel density, so the same thing on both monitors (same pixel dimension) will have the same real-life (inches or mm) dimension.

If you had two monitors with the same pixel density you would just run them both at their native res and be good to go. If they're different, I think you'd need to run the numbers and run a custom resolution on one of them.

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schwartzie Veteran Member [89%] MBTI: Intx Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3,561	my employer is too poor to buy me a second monitor, so I bought one; it is about 1 inch smaller than my primary screen. Is there any way to get identical resolution on the two screens so I'm not constantly resizing windows I slide them from the primary to small3r secondary screen? (the preset resolutions dont "match")
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HackerX Core Member [166%] MBTI: INTP Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,668	Depends on the monitors. I assume they don't already have matching resolutions so you might be able to set the bigger one to match the smaller one. LCD's don't like not being in their native resolution though, so it won't look so good. My monitors (home & work) are the same situation. IMO, I think in the end you'll just (have to) get used to it. If you have Win 7, the keyboard shortcuts for moving and snapping windows helps this considerably.
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12ax7 Member [02%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 115	You can probably set the one with the larger resolution to run the same as the smaller (like HackerX said, won't look real sharp on the resized one), but I still don't think that would solve your problem. As you move a window from the bigger monitor to the smaller one, the window will stay the same "percentage" of screen, but since you're moving it to a smaller monitor, it will appear to shrink. What you really need to do is match up the pixel density, so the same thing on both monitors (same pixel dimension) will have the same real-life (inches or mm) dimension. If you had two monitors with the same pixel density you would just run them both at their native res and be good to go. If they're different, I think you'd need to run the numbers and run a custom resolution on one of them.
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