Improve Monitor Screen "Sharpness"?

[MatthewSchenker]

Hello Everyone,
I just bought a new Acer 22" flat-screen monitor, and it looks pretty good. But I'm wondering if there are any operating-system tricks that will help sharpen the text and graphics on the screen? Maybe there's a driver, or some application I can install?
Thanks,
Matt

[srikar]

Re: Improve Monitor Screen "Sharpness"?

The sharpness settings are wid the monitor itself.

The graphics depend on ur onboard graphic card.If u want to tweak ur graphic card download related softwares(ex : ati provides ati catalyst center and nvdia provides ntune utility).

[SheeEttin]

Re: Improve Monitor Screen "Sharpness"?

Hmm... I'm not quite sure what you mean. If a screenshot shows what you are talking about, could you provide one?
There are text anti-aliasing settings, accessible at System Settings > Appearance > Fonts. Try playing with those.

[MatthewSchenker]

Re: Improve Monitor Screen "Sharpness"?

Thanks SheeEttin and srikar for your replies...

The sharpness settings are wid the monitor itself.

The graphics depend on ur onboard graphic card.If u want to tweak ur graphic card download related softwares(ex : ati provides ati catalyst center and nvdia provides ntune utility).

I am checking on this now. My video card is an Intel model.

Hmm... I'm not quite sure what you mean. If a screenshot shows what you are talking about, could you provide one?
There are text anti-aliasing settings, accessible at System Settings > Appearance > Fonts. Try playing with those.

This made a big difference! Thanks! When I went into the anti-aliasing area, I saw that it was disabled. Prior to this discussion, I had left it alone because I didn't really know what anti-aliasing was for and I was afraid to break something. So I enabled it using "System settings."

The "Force fonts DPI" was also disabled. I enabled it, setting it to 120 DPI.

Now all the text on my system is much sharper.

Feeling emboldened by my font-improvement experiences, I also changed the "Color & Gamma" settings in the KDE Control Center > Peripherals > Monitor & Display section. I moved the "Gamma correction" slider marked "All" up and down a bit to sharpen the images on the screen.

Regarding the "Gamma correction": the instructions say to set it "until the squares blend into the background as much as possible." However, I found the sharpest settings were when the squares were not blended so much into the background. Has anyone else experienced this? Are the instructions just a suggestion, or have I done something wrong?

Once again, thank you to this forum for another helpful discussion!

Matt

[SheeEttin]

Re: Improve Monitor Screen "Sharpness"?

Regarding the "Gamma correction": the instructions say to set it "until the squares blend into the background as much as possible." However, I found the sharpest settings were when the squares were not blended so much into the background. Has anyone else experienced this? Are the instructions just a suggestion, or have I done something wrong?

I've always felt those types of instructions are lying to me.

Anyway, glad to help!

[MatthewSchenker]

Re: Improve Monitor Screen "Sharpness"?

I've always felt those types of instructions are lying to me.

Oh me oh my, what's the world coming to, when I can't even trust the instructions in my Linux settings screen!
Honestly, though, I can't believe what a difference it makes to adjust those settings.