Brian C. Huffman wrote:
If this option is calculated this way, the Xserver could do it by itself?
Honestly, logic would tell me to get out a tape rule and measure my TV
Yep, that's the way to do it. Well, almost:
The catch is that X assumes your display device is sitting on a desk in
front of you, and as such scales fonts etc to a reasonable reading size;
a TV is usually watched from a considerably greater distance.
The easy way around this is to sit in your TV-watching position, and
using a steel tape measure (or ruler or whatever) held at arm's length,
measure the apparent size of your TV screen from this position. X then
does (more or less) The Right Thing.
If the fonts are still a bit too big/small, then you can do a bit of
trial and error to find the optimum value - just remember to keep the
ratio[1] of the two sizes the same.
kim.
[1] On the subject of ratios, DisplaySize also seems to be the way to
tell X that your display device has non-square pixels (eg. anamorphic
widescreen TV). I've played around with this, and discovered that myth
does the right thing when told that the display size is 16:9.
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