On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:59 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] postscript]$ rpm -qf $(which xrandr)
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] postscript]$ xrandr --version
Server reports RandR version 1.1
Looks like an improvement on its successors.
carl
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