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From: Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:26:18
Message-Id: 20170904222554.6syjy3rwchty3xht@31c0.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen by Grant
1 Hello Grant,
2
3 On Mo, 04 Sep 12:24:00 -0700
4 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 >Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your
7 >screen in mm?
8
9 If you know the shadow mask/dot pitch [1] or the real pixel per inch of
10 your screen, then calculate it. This way you see if software reports
11 wrong values.
12
13 BTW: X supports -dpi parameter/option. I use it in my xserverrc (xinit
14 server script) configuration and the Xorg.0.log reports the correct and
15 prior calculated values.
16
17 [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_pitch>
18
19
20 --
21 Regards,
22 floyd

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