Carl Lowenstein wrote: > I have noticed over the past couple of days that PostScript text files > viewed with gv(1) looked sort of funny on my new wide-screen LCD > display. Not scaled the same horizontally and vertically, so the > characters were squeezed one way or another. Also the on-screen page > size had the wrong aspect ratio. > > Got myself a clue -- gv uses its internal knowledge of the screen > dimensions to scale the display. Sure enough, when I changed State -> > Setup Options -> Screen Size from 361x292 mm to 524x321 mm, everything > looked right again. > > I don't remember setting 361x292 myself in the past, maybe it happened > when gv was installed. Anyhow, one can learn the screen dimensions by > running xrandr(1x) or by taking the metric measuring tape to the > actual display.
I've forgotten how to find what the system currently thinks the physical dimensions (or dpi settings) are. Is it available in xrandr output -- I don't see it? Am I missing something? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
