Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:16 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> 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? >> > This is the first couple of lines that I get from xrandr. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] postscript]$ xrandr > SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh > *0 1920 x 1200 ( 524mm x 321mm ) *60 > > carl
Hmmm, on xrandr version 1.2, from xorg-x11-utils-7.1-4.fc7 I get Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200 default connected 1600x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1600x1200 75.0* 70.0 65.0 60.0 ... What version of xrandr is in your machine? Hmmm, on another machine (1.2 in xorg-x11-utils-7.3-1.fc8) I see "..connected.. 320mm x 240mm As greg offered, xdpyinfo does give seemingly authoritative answers. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
