<quote who="Andrew Bennetts"> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:43:54PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > I have an IBM P70 17" Monitor on this computer running at a resolution > > of 1280x960 pixels. The picture is about 318mm by 235mm (It is a bit > > difficult to measure because of the curvature of the screen) These > > figures seem to correspond to about 103 pixel per inch. > > > > I have read that you can supply a dpi argument to X at startup but I > > can't find any such option in amongst the myriad of files and scripts > > that are associated with X. (X is started on this box by the wdm display > > manager) Is there a command that will reveal the X server's default > > dpi? > > Does "xdpyinfo | grep resolution" help? Yes, exactly what I was looking for.
cheers, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
