With high-resolution monitors becoming more popular, does the StackExchange team have any plans to make these websites use more display area when the browser is maximized/fullscreen?  Currently, I am using a full HD display (1920x1080). Only about 3/7 of the width of my display is used on StackExchange sites:  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | | &lt;---- UNUSED ----&gt; || &lt;------------  960px  ----------&gt; || &lt;---- UNUSED ----&gt; | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    | |                    ||                                   ||                    |                                         ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------     In addition, with current 2560w displays and future high-resolution displays, the amount of unused space is greater than the space used to display content.  In my opinion, the horizontal layout should be fluid - proportionally adjusting to the width of your browser window to maximize the use of your display. It probably shouldn't expand to fit the entire width of the window, because that would require users constantly turn their heads to view all of the content.    This  has valid arguments:  (1) I like being able to size my browser window to hide the panel on the right without losing question/answer size now and then (mainly when I'm working on two things at once).  (2) I like knowing approximately how my answers will look in terms of paragraph size and so forth.  (3) I like knowing that syntax highlighter wrapped things correctly.  (4) Mostly, I like that this helps encourage brevity in code samples - if the sample is long enough that you're losing code for nesting reasons, it's time to re-focus your thoughts and pare down to just what's relevant to the problem.  My counter-arguments:  (1) Add a "collapse side panel" feature that remembers your preference.  (2) Why does this matter? A high-quality answer will contain only relevant and necessary information. (Maybe restrict post length for new users?) Also, see point (3) below.  (3) Never depend on the code formatter correctly wraping/indenting code. You can preview posts below the editor anyway.  (4) This will happen in posts regardless of the width of the page. Even with this 960px-wide page, some users constantly dump entire programs into a post. See parenthetical in point (2).    Does the community have any thoughts or suggestions on this matter?
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When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?  EDIT  It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site has fluid layout...
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I'm working on a kind of unique app which needs to generate images at specific resolutions according to the device they are displayed on. So the output is different on a regular Windows browser (96ppi), iPhone (163ppi), Android G1 (180ppi), and other devices. I'm wondering if there's a way to detect this automatically.  My initial research seems to say no. The only suggestion I've seen is to make an element whose width is specified as "1in" in CSS, then check its offsetWidth (see also ). Makes sense, but iPhone is lying to me with that technique, saying it's 96ppi.  Another approach might be to get the dimensions of the display in inches and then divide by the width in pixels, but I'm not sure how to do that either.
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I think that Stack Exchange could optimize the Stack Overflow logo on top of the page for high-resolution displays.  Moreover I think that svg-Files are a better solution for simple icons like upvote or down vote, which will look sharp on all devices and often have even a smaller size than png-files.
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Q: I have two monitors with different scaling on the same window. Any ideas on how to fix this issue? I also have a minor issue with new windows or browser windows opening half off screen and I think it could be related by not sure.  Info: I have a Optiplex 990 with an NVidia GTX 750 Ti for CAD and modeling on Windows 10. I'm running two monitors, the first being a DellP2213 over DVI and the second being a Dell UP3214Q over Mini DP. Both monitors are set to native and I haven't made any changes to scaling or resolutions.  I've included  so you can see what I'm talking about, as well as two shots from the display settings.  The first image is a photo of the layout.   Next is the print screen of the layouts.   The other two pictures show the basic settings of the monitors.    If anyone needs more information, please let me know.  Edit: Tried updating drivers and removing the NVidia Control Panel settings. No dice.
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Just moved from Unity to GNOME with the update to Ubuntu 17.10. There is a HUGE amount of wasted space at the top of the screen, when an application is open.  Evolution and Firefox both have four "bars" with 90% of each empty. Unity, to its credit was able to blend / mix these horizontal bars so there was only one / two.      Four is way too much. If this is GNOME I may carry on with Unity for the next six months.  Can anybody suggest a tweak/change/fix for this?
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I'm a web developer and I love Photoshop but unfortunately I have some design mock-ups sent over to me in Illustrator. When I viewed the document at 100% the text isn't even legible on my monitor. At 150% things looks like they could be an actual web page and everything is clear.  I'm thinking the designer used a screen resolution that really doesn't convert well for web.  How can I view/change the document's screen resolution to say, 72ppi from whatever it is now?  If you think I'm asking the wrong question then here is an alternate: How can I figure out what width (in pixels) the designer actually intended for design?
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A client of mine is insisting on two things for a website I am designing:    That every single link is shown in the header – about 10 links or so with no sub-categories. ie. no drop-downs, rollovers, or sub-navigation.   That the header is always visible and static up the top. The content below it will scroll independently but the header is always up the top.    Now, to me, I don't like the idea of the navigation being always up the top. It means I have to go to lengths to reduce the height so that you can see enough content below it on smaller monitors. I believe that users know to find navigation up the top intuitively and don't need to have the nav forced on them at all times. In the client's eyes – this is "easier" – but in mine, it's treating the audience as stupid and smacks of Web 1.0 principles (namely frames).  So my question is – is it bad UX to have a fixed-position header?
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I have tried every solution given on the Internet, as well as some tricks up my own sleeve.  Nothing works to help me "extend" my desktop and not "duplicate" it across 2 monitors.  My question is "What is the appropriate site to ask about this?" I don't think it would be Stack Overflow, but I don't dare try any of them for fear of being downvoted to death if I'm wrong.
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I'm planning on buying a 4k monitor, but have heard about some applications, (in general all operating systems) may not be ready for 4k which results in a very bad user experience.   I mostly use standard applications (office, internet browsing, eventually gimp, etc... ) and developing applications (netbeans, mysql workbench, android studio...).   I'm currently running 16.04, Unity desktop.
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I am using a default font size of 26px and stackoverflow's layout seems to not work well with such a large sizes.  The most important issue is that many inputs tend to overflow and partially get hidden below side text. This includes one with login, ‘Title’ and — the most important issue — the editor, which makes writing posts a little painful.  Another important one is that sometimes 'search' field doesn't fit in topbar and jumps lower, being partially hidden by logo. I met that issue on stackoverflow itself only while serverfault &amp; meta display fine (but that may be related to rep or sth).  There's one minor issue too — navbar is too narrow and ‘Ask Question’ jumps below — but this one looks quite nice (maybe it's even intended?).  Screenshot: (click to enlarge)
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I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I plugged in my external 1080p display (HP 25bw) in clamshell mode and it almost works great - except the screen is too large for the monitor. My dock is too far down off the edge, and my menu is too far up.  For example, when I took the attached screenshot, the Chrome window fills the entire screen I can see:  I have checked and the display options are using native resolution of the monitor (1920x1080 @60hz).  Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks so much.  Note: For any with this same monitor model in the future, thanks to @bmike I found the steps for disabling overscan for this particular monitor model here:
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I have a dual monitor set-up. When I'm on YouTube, and I click the fullscreen icon, the fullscreen automatically goes to the second monitor. How do I get it to go fullscreen on my main monitor?
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We're building a web-based platform where the main dashboard shows a table of data for users to view and analyze. As we're growing this tool, we seem to be adding more and more columns and are running out of horizontal space on smaller screen resolutions (we're seeing some data wrap). It is important to the user to view all columns at once, so column hiding is somewhat out of the question, as is horizontal scrolling (per the boss's request and because horizontal scrolling sucks anyways). I was wondering if anyone knew of a clever UI for tables with many columns.  EDIT  Below is a screen capture of the layout of the table. Unfortunately for security purposes I had to blur out the column titles. This example has rows with practically no data in them, but in use they will have lots of data that will expand wider than their respective column titles. In response to some of the answers, it is imperative that the user see all the columns, as they are all necessary to analyze the data to make certain decisions. All the data is numeric aside from the first three columns. Thanks again for any feedback.    Ok so I see that uploading this image doesn't really do it justice... it takes up the full width of the screen at 1680x1050 resolution (22") and as data fills in the columns, the left column w/the text shrinks down a bit.  EDIT 2 I just wanted to say thank you to everyone's awesome ideas. I can only select one answer, but a lot of your ideas have proven very useful and may end up in the final product. Thanks again!
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The HTPC in my living room is the fastest/most modern PC I own.  My current TV is a 24" tube TV, so I have to hook up a secondary monitor in order to read anything besides the menus in Windows Media Center, and that alone is kind of annoying.  I'm also tired of having to sit on the floor to do any web browsing or reading on the PC, since there's no practical way to set up a computer desk over there.  I've seen charts on recommended TV sizes for various viewing distances, but those are all oriented toward home theater, not the ability to read web pages from a distance with little or no eye strain.  I'm curious whether anyone has personally tried web browsing or coding on a 1080p TV from halfway across the room.  If so, what size TV do you use, and how far away do you sit (from the screen to your eyeball)?  More specifically, is a 40" 1080p LCD HDTV adequate for web browsing, reading, and general-purpose computing while sitting 12-15 feet away?  If not, do I need something bigger/need to move a little closer?  What size and viewing distance should I be shooting for?  Aside from resolution (I'm already settled on 1080p), are there any other factors that will make a noticeable difference in the TV's performance as a computer monitor?  I found a similar question, but it wasn't quite specific enough to answer my question:
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My current desktop reso is 1366x768    In cs 1.6 I have selected display option as Normal and Resolution as 1024x768.     In this settings I don't get those vertical black side bars which make the playing screen square.     Atm it is rectangular but I wanted square.    How do I get the vertical black bars while playing cs 1.6?
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I want to run the Microsoft SDK Simulator on Windows 7 but it requires 1280 x 960 or greater, whereas I have just 1280 x 800 on my laptop. I remember when using Windows XP it give me a lot of choices between resolutions even though the resolution of the screen is so small. On Windows 7 it doesn't offer other resolutions bigger than the maximum, is there any workaround or software that allows higher resolution? This is a video I took using Windows XP, you can see that when the resolution exceeds the maximum, not the whole desktop is shown on the screen but once I hover on the sides the desktop moves to show the hidden sides.   Note that I am not using any software and I didn't do any hardware modification, this has always worked for me, not like what the answers mentioned.
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I've noticed this issue on a handful of other communities, but making the browser window narrow (mine is 1080x960) makes the .post-layout and #sidebar elements overlap. Maybe something to do with the grid CSS? The #mainbar element seems to be the correct width and changing the .post-layout's overflow-x to auto seems to "fix" it  From retrocomputing:    From this post, because we are meta after all:    Specs:   Google Chrome Version 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit) Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS