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The screen width thing is...

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The screen width thing is...

Submitted by Skud (not verified) on January 23, 2006 - 3:44pm.

The screen width thing is definitely an issue for me as I have a 24” widescreen monitor. Many applications in fullscreen mode are not very usable at that width.

Another thing I find to be a related issue is cursor colour. I’ve used Terminal, SubEthaEdit, and Ulysses in the past for full screen editing, all of them with a light-on-dark colour scheme. Of the three, only Terminal manages to make my mouse cursor visible against the dark background. With the other two, it gets lost. I spend a lot of time frustrated, hunting for it.

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Open Thread: Developing for Full Screen Mode? By: Merlin Mann (31 replies) January 23, 2006 - 5:43am
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