On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Andrew C Aitchison
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> > 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 ?
i was also thinking desktop background setting app provides a "preview" in a
widget/panel when selecting a background and if it is to scale, tile etc. this
"preview" widget size may not be adjusted to match the aspect ratio of the
screen and may be hard-coded to a 80x60 size or 200x150 or such.
lets imagine a program that provides a full screen mode and now provides a
mini-view pane which shows a zoomed out version of the screen and contents -
this might also be hard-coded to a 4:3 ratio.
in general though you should be fine, but you may see aesthetic evilness. :)
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