> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > you biggest problems will be aesthetic. x itself doesn't care what the aspect > > is. it's irrelevant really. the real problem will be with desktop and other > > application software making the general assumption of 4:3 ratio and so images > > may get stretched a bit wider or tiled when you dont want them to etc. it's all > > on a app-by-app, case-by-case basis. On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Jens Owen wrote: > X does support the concept of seperate DPI in the X & Y direction on a > per screen basis. I'm not sure that any drivers do much but fill in a > default value which would be inaccurate for non-square pixels. Then > there's the issue of the applications paying attention to this value...
Although "X -configure" comments out the DisplaySize entry it writes into the config file, at run time XFree86 does set the dpi from the DDC probed monitor size info, so non-square pixels should be correctly reported to apps. However, I'd understood Carsten to be talking about wallpapers; if your window manager or desktop has a collection of 4:3 wallpaper images, then simply stretching them to fill a 1920 x 1200 screen isn't ideal or a screen with square pixels. On the other hand, which desktop apps stretch buttons and similar images when presented with non-square pixels ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
