I have been using the excellent list of true 16:9 resolutions from pacoup.com for a long while, mostly when I’m dreaming about “that monitor” or in my case “those monitors”. But I also find it useful when multi-boxing. Typically I have seven small windows (1280×720) arrayed around the edges of my 4k monitor (3840×2160 @ 100% scaling) and a single larger window (normally 2560×1440) in the centre. My software solution is a mix of InnerSpace which handles the keyboard & mouse multiplexing (sending input to each window) and Open Multi-Box which I use for the windows management: positioning each window, and allowing me to swap a small window into the big window. It also handles the xmouse like ability to activate and pull to the front of game windows I mouse over while ignoring non-game windows.
Open Multi-Box is still in active development and was I think mostly designed around the changes to World of Warcraft’s EULA regarding multi-boxing. Which banned software multiplexers (hardware too probably but good luck actually detecting them), I don’t play WoW so it’s not something that worries me. It has an issue which may e3ventually be fixed that means profile switching leaves traces of itself behind.
I use the software to create a TerraTech borderless window at 3456×1944, this allows me to have a borderless windowed game client, something that the TerraTech game client won’t do natively. If later on I want to switch back to a different Open Multi-Box profile with a smaller main window, it inherits and updates the settings of the other profile with the much larger windows setting. I then need to manually edit it back…
So I edited the list that I found on pacoup.com years ago to make it much easier to not only see which sizes I wanted, but also include the Horizontal and Vertical offsets to centre the window on the screen… then I coloured the background of the ones I use a lot so I can see them quickly… I did do it as an excel spreadsheet… but so much easier as a webpage. So yeah blog for now, single page eventually… I also mean to remove the really small & >4k resolutions when I get round to it. Did that already… 🙂
| Width | Height | Common names and standards | H | V |
| 1024 | 576 | 1408 | 792 | |
| 1152 | 648 | 1344 | 756 | |
| 1280 | 720 | 720p / HD ready | 1280 | 720 |
| 1408 | 792 | 1216 | 684 | |
| 1536 | 864 | 1152 | 648 | |
| 1664 | 936 | 1088 | 612 | |
| 1792 | 1008 | 1024 | 576 | |
| 1920 | 1080 | 1080p / Full HD / BT.709 | 960 | 540 |
| 2048 | 1152 | 896 | 504 | |
| 2176 | 1224 | 832 | 468 | |
| 2304 | 1296 | 768 | 432 | |
| 2432 | 1368 | 704 | 396 | |
| 2560 | 1440 | WQHD | 640 | 360 |
| 2688 | 1512 | 576 | 324 | |
| 2816 | 1584 | 512 | 288 | |
| 2944 | 1656 | 448 | 252 | |
| 3072 | 1728 | 384 | 216 | |
| 3200 | 1800 | 320 | 180 | |
| 3328 | 1872 | 256 | 144 | |
| 3456 | 1944 | For TerraTech… | 192 | 108 |
| 3584 | 2016 | 128 | 72 | |
| 3712 | 2088 | 64 | 36 | |
| 3840 | 2160 | 4K UHD / UHDTV1 / BT.2020 |
So yeah something useful and a blog update in one post… 😀