I had a 1280x1024 monitor which is 5:4. 1024x768 is a popular 4:3 resolution
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Congratulations, you're old. Everything is HD now, there's no reason to make those anymore.
A 5:4 monitor would be closer to square than an HD monitor. I'm not sure if the OP meant an HD size or actually 5:4 since I haven't seen anything that size except for digital picture frames and portable console screens.
1280x1024 is a pretty common size for old LCDs.
I had CRTs that could do that, too, but if you opened a picture of a circle, it looked like an oval.
I'm not saying those screen ratios, or those resolutions, didn't exist, but I wouldn't say they were the norm.
Yeah, I don't think I've seen a native 5:4 CRT. I imagine it's a lot harder to make a different aspect ratio with CRTs, since LCDs are essentially cut out of a sheet, while CRTs are molded glass.
With LCDs, though, 1280x1024 was a fairly common native resolution. If you were getting an LCD above 1024x768 that wasn't a widescreen, it was almost certainly 1280x1024.
From what I read, SXGA was only popular for 17 and 19" screens. I'm not sure if there were 4:3 screens in those sizes back when they were popular, but 5:4 and widescreen formats are still available in those sizes today.
5:4 was great. I could see a full screen video edge-to-edge, and still have room for a toolbar.
Today I have no idea why I would like that, but I did.
That's really weird. As far as I know there's only one common resolution that was 5:4, 1280x1024. Honestly I never understood why that existed when 1280x960 was right there.
But now that I think about it, maybe it worked better for businesses where documents took a lot of screen time and a little less scrolling was nice. That could explain how thrift stores got overloaded with them.
If this is Linux, I'm pretty sure that you can use RandR (or whatever Wayland's analog is, if this is Wayland) to crop the visible area to whatever aspect ratio you want. Probably on Wayland the wlr-randr command can do it on wlroots-based compositors.
I've done so before on X11 with an HMD that extended into the edges of my visual field, where I wanted everything in the (crisp, clear) center.
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Looks like it:
https://man.archlinux.org/man/wlr-randr.1.en
--mode | --custom-mode <width>x<height>[@<refresh>Hz]
Set output resolution and, optionally, refresh rate.
--pos <x>,<y>
Position the output with absolute layout coordinates.
It's gonna be for one of those computers that remakes the pc-xt with modern chips.
Edit: NuXT from monotech