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What is it called when a monitor adds black areas to the displayed content because the resolution doesn't match?
What is this phenomena called?
It is not quite 100% clear what you are asking about, but I guess the best answer would be "basic geometry". In television and movies, it is called ...
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How to select maximum resolution and specify a format/codec in yt-dlp?
According to the documentation, this should work:
yt-dlp -v -f "bv*[height<=720][ext=mp4]+ba*[ext=m4a]" -N 4 "https://www.youtube.com/xxx"
So basically you specify each filter ...
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Scale < 100% on Windows 10
It is possible with NVidia CPUs.
Launch the Nvidia Control Panel
Navigate to the 3D Settings
Locate "DSR-factors"
Select 4.00x
At the next setting ("DSR smoothing"), select 10%
...
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Identical dual QHD Monitors show different resolutions connected to Laptop
Based on two answers in https://superuser.com/a/964704/368970 it seems that the Intel HD Graphics 4000 only supports up to 1920x1080 on HDMI (and higher res on DisplayPort.)
So I think there is ...
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How does my monitor have more pixels than its specification
You have asked for "looks like" 2560x1440 which is very different to that of the physical screen 3820x2160.
When the two sizes are different with non-integer scaling (2160/1440 is not an ...
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Best way to export PowerPoint slides into PNGs with different resolutions?
[In case non-Superusers (like me) get here, this is easy; see appended below]
Based on the answer above provided by Steve Rindsberg (Thank you so much!!!), the following code creates individual PNGs ...
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Ubuntu on Virtualbox screen is too small, can't change resolution
I assume you have installed Ubuntu 22 on VirtualBox 7.0 on Mac
In VirtualBox settings
Settings > System > Motherboard: turn up base memory
Settings > System > Processor: turn up ...
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How to change a picture's PPI without changing the print size in GIMP
Here is a simpler way:
Go to Image -> Scale Image
Change Image Size 'units' from Pixel to Centimeter (or inches or ...)
Select and Copy the Width value now given in centimeter
Change the X ...
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How to get Dell G3223Q monitor to support good looking, clear, sharp text at non-native resolutions on Mac
This is not really an answer, but is a bit long as just a comment.
Your S2817Q is working at its best. macOS is detecting it as a hiDPI monitor. When you ask for "looks like" 2560x1440, ...
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How do i force a resolution on a screen that doesn't support it
This is (sadly) not possible. The maximum resolution of a display is determined by the amount of physical pixels on your display panel (-> the size of your pixels in relation to your display size).
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How can I configure VirtualBox so that my guest has a 1920x1080 resolution while being full screen?
In the VM menu in VirtualBox:
Disable the full screen mode (if it was enabled).
View>Virtual screen>Resize to [size] to choose a new size in pixels.
Select "Scale to 200%" option in ...
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Understanding HiDPI displays and DPR
I’ll attempt to answer your actual questions. But first, I urge you to let go of device pixel ratios and logical resolutions, they’re a can of worms.
On a normal flat panel display (CRTs are slightly ...
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How does a screen display a higher resolution than its physical resolution?
The increase in render resolution versus actual native resolution is a form of anti-aliasing. It is typically known as Supersampling.
Your screen may physically only able to show 2560x1600 but if you ...
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Does it make sense to find 2160p/1080p version of old movies?
35 mm monochrome film, e.g., Panatomic-X, could capture the equivalent of ~100Mp/frame*. If the original film is sharp, and if it were scanned with care, it would correspond to approximately about ...
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Are the "full size" images from Instagram on a browser actually full size?
Instagram doesn't show the original pictures. Here's how to access them anyway.
From the article
How to View Original Full-Size Pictures & Profile Photos on Instagram.
In a nutshell, these ...
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Is there any way to use dedicated graphic card for external monitor instead of integrated Microsoft Basic Display Adapter on Windows 10?
No, its not possible. Your dedicated GPU is a AMD Radeon HD 6650M :
This device has no display connectivity, as it is not designed to have
monitors connected to it. Rather it is intended for use in
...
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Windows 10 camera won't go to correct resolution
The fix was to uninstall the USB device using Device Manager, then disconnect and reconnect the camera.
Presumably this causes Windows to clear some kind of cache, and re-fill it with the correct USB ...
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When attempting to access the UEFI firmware settings, screen goes black (ROG STRIX Z370 G-GAMING)
Make sure you've connected a monitor to the bottommost video connector on the 1660 - that's the one used for BIOS/UEFI.
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How to fill black borders of VM without VMWare tools. VMWare player 17 free
How to fill black borders of VM without VMWare tools. ..... I can get
it to do this by installing the VMWare tools, but the problem is that
when I do this it breaks some of my games that I hope to run ...
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Windows 7: AMD: Need to adjust the desktop offset and size within the same screen resolution on TV monitor
You're looking for 'underscan/overscan' settings.
Lifewire says for an AMD -
you can use the Radeon Software app to fix overscan issues by opening it, clicking Settings > Display, and adjusting ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM's resolution on VirtualBox
What John said simply worked. Upgrading to VirtualBox 7.0.8 fixed the issue.
I didn't have to install another VBoxLinuxAdditions either or do any action on my VM side, just using a recent VB version ...
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Unable to set correct resolution for each monitor
This sounds like a limitation of the WD19 dock. One solution, though messier, may be to connect one monitor through the dock and the other directly to your computer.
You can also try lowering the ...
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Windows 10 dpi scaling with 27 inch Display 1440
I'm going to leave this answer for anybody running into the same problem of having an old laptop with Nvidia GT XXXX Style GPU with HDMI output. After coming back and digging some more, I was lucky to ...
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Switching from VGA to Display Port makes text blurry
I ran into this exact same issue and noted in the Advanced Display Settings for the monitor that was blurry, the Active signal resolution was less than the Desktop resolution.
This post fixed it for ...
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Extract original PNG image from PowerPoint 2019 in full resolution?
On windows you can drop a pptx onto a cmd file or add it to sendto for right click so here we have a PptX with a high res PNG
pptEX.cmd <filename> (or drag and drop or send to this cmd, you can ...
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Ubuntu on VirtualBox can only show resolution of 800x600 - how do I change it?
Update 2023
virtualbox-guest-dkms is no longer required.
I noticed a lot of the answers here are from 2010 and haven't been updated.
As @Julian Wagner pointed out:
If you run sudo apt install ...
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Mouse gets stuck on edges of different resolution monitors
Windows 11 now has rudimentary support for this built in on the System > Display dialog: "Ease cursor movement between displays".
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Split monitor into virtual monitors
After struggling with splitting one physical monitor into two or more virtual monitors myself, I feel I can summarize the answer into two "tools" that can both be be used to create the ...
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xfreerdp ignores resolution parameter
Use /f if you want full-screen mode. Type Ctrl+Alt+Enter to toggle to window mode.
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xfreerdp ignores resolution parameter
In even more recent versions (2.10.0) it can also scale for HiDPI screens with /smart-sizing option. E.g.
/smart-sizing:1920x1080
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