Help Me F-list You're my Only Hope

[aerianya]

Because "T" aka the grumpy guy decided he'd like my monitor for his other computer (one for gaming one for business) he surprised me with a shiny new 19" wide screen. It is lovely and shiny and a little bigger than 17" flat screen he pinched from me. You all look beautiful, but a little stretched sideways if you know what I mean. He said I'd get used to it, but Photoshop is also stretched. This doesn't mean much to a gamer, wider is better, but does it affect graphics? Squares are rectangles!
Do any of you make icons on a widescreen? Are there setting to change in there?Does any of this matter?
I guess till I get used to it I'll be checking every icon on the laptop to make sure it doesn't look funny...
any ideas?

ETA Screw it. It's 25 pixels. I'm going swimming....

Comments

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

I just thought - some monitors have an internal menu as well, kind of like a TV set. You'd access it from a button on the front of the actual monitor. If yours has that, you can change the display dimensions using that - if the drivers and computer display settings are as they should be, that could be the solution.

[aerianya.livejournal.com]

We tried that too. I know the answer is there somewhere it's just a matter of finding just the right thing. It will be simple and make me feel stupid for not seeing it sooner.*sigh