Quick Tip: Textured Workspace vs. DPI
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Didn't think this was SnTT-worthy, more of a "hm, that's interesting" item. A coworker nudged me in a meeting this morning and asked me how to "get the fancy look back". He had Notes open to his Workspace, apparently with the "Textured Workspace" option disabled. So I showed him how to find that option in the User Preferences... which was still enabled. We tried disabling it, closing and reopening Notes and reenabling it, no joy.
He'd recently upgraded to Vista, and something about the way it displays fonts was making it difficult for him to read text at the resolution he prefers to maintain, so he'd gone into his video settings and changed the DPI from 96 to 120. Later in the same meeting he decided he didn't like the new DPI setting any better and changed it back. The next time he opened Notes, his Workspace was all texturefied again. I tested the same setting on XP, same result: 120 DPI kills the textured Workspace. This might be specific to the video card and / or drivers that ship with Thinkpads; I haven't bothered to try it out on my Dell (or any desktops, for that matter)... I'm not a fan of that setting anyway... it seems to waste RAM with no real benefit. But if a user reports the same behavior, now you know a possible cause.
Didn't think this was SnTT-worthy, more of a "hm, that's interesting" item. A coworker nudged me in a meeting this morning and asked me how to "get the fancy look back". He had Notes open to his Workspace, apparently with the "Textured Workspace" option disabled. So I showed him how to find that option in the User Preferences... which was still enabled. We tried disabling it, closing and reopening Notes and reenabling it, no joy.
He'd recently upgraded to Vista, and something about the way it displays fonts was making it difficult for him to read text at the resolution he prefers to maintain, so he'd gone into his video settings and changed the DPI from 96 to 120. Later in the same meeting he decided he didn't like the new DPI setting any better and changed it back. The next time he opened Notes, his Workspace was all texturefied again. I tested the same setting on XP, same result: 120 DPI kills the textured Workspace. This might be specific to the video card and / or drivers that ship with Thinkpads; I haven't bothered to try it out on my Dell (or any desktops, for that matter)... I'm not a fan of that setting anyway... it seems to waste RAM with no real benefit. But if a user reports the same behavior, now you know a possible cause.
