Intel screen size

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Jan 4 16:07:06 PST 2008


On Friday, January 04, 2008 3:57 pm Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just a note. Why xdpyinfo returns:
> screen #0:
>   dimensions:    1680x1050 pixels (426x266 millimeters)
>
> and xrandr returns:
> LVDS connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 331mm x 207mm
>
> (the xrandr is correct)
>
> I tried to use DisplaySize 331 207 but it seems to have no effect.

You'll have to ask someone familiar with the guts of the server's DPI and 
screen size code.  AFAIK it's just a big mess (even more so if you throw gtk 
hardcoded DPIs into the mix, etc.).

Jesse



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