| External monitor resolution on Os X |
The Macintosh users always seem so much better than other OS users for answering dumb questions here, so I have high hopes...
Basically the only thing I need a Mac for these days is doing copy and technical edits on book chapters. The revision control and change tracking in OpenOffice is unfortunately not quite there yet, so it's not possible on Linux. However, I just got the heebies with Catherine's tiny 1024x768 internal LCD on her 12 inch ibook, and tried to plug in my spare LCD monitor.
Now the display is automatically mirrored, which is nice, but it's at 1024x768 on the external monitor as well. This sucks because the monitor is a LCD and only properly displays at 1280x1024. Some quick surfing seems to imply that this is standard behaviour on Os X, which sucks.
So, does anyone have a quick fix which wont destroy Catherine's machine? I don't mind running the external monitor with fewer colours, or not in mirrored mode if that helps. It just seems to me that the display control panel is surprisingly lacking in options.
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