Has anyone tried the 19" wide screen monitors on a suse box yet? Does version matter? I am currently using 9.3, waiting for my 10.1 dvd to arrive. Can I see a wider spreadsheet? How do I set it up? an on and on ...
I don't use a 19" widescreen, but my 17" widescreen laptop was easy to set up - just a matter of chosing the correct resolution (which as it happens YaST identified by default.) The main factor is whether your graphics card supports the resolution you want to use.
As for wider spreadsheets, I find I can have two fully usable windows open side by side, whereas with a 4:3 screen they would have to overlap to make each one usable.
I've got an Acer 20" AL2016W widescreen TFT (16:10) and it works fine. Resolution is 1680x1050... I wouldn't trade it for a 4:3 monitor for any money. The extra desktop space is so nice. Setup in 10.1 was a breeze. It's not ID'd perfectly on setup (freq range for my monitor isn't right by default so it goes out of range and blanks the screen in teh test mode) so I selected a lower compatible resolution (1440x990 - usually used for 19" widescreens) and continued the setup. Then when I installed the nVidia driver, I just tweaked the freq settings in SAX2 for the 1680x1050 resolution (everything else about the monitor card was detected and I left it alone). Once it's up and running, everything displays as expected on a wide desktop. I don't have any grumbles about any application (running on KDE) in the wide screen aspect ratio. C.