Le mardi 11 juillet 2006 à 13:11 +0930, Tim a écrit :
> > But the printer or its device-specific driver knows how wide/tall a sheet
> > of paper is and the DPI in any mode is fixed. So it's easy for the
> > printer or driver to know how many dots are in a point.
>
> Can we not preset the same information into X? I know you can configure
> the Gimp, and Mozilla (at least older versions), so it knew how many
> centimetres across the screen used how many pixels. Surely it's not too
> hard to configure X, itself, with a "my screen is x by y cms where the
> display is actually drawn" when setting it up. (Remembering that with
> PCs, a 17" monitor is a useless description, it measure the entire tube,
> not the usable part of it. And we have width and height scan controls
> on most CRTs.)
$ xdpyinfo
...
screen #0:
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (431x272 millimeters)
resolution: 99x98 dots per inch
In xorg.conf:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Belinea"
ModelName "10 20 35W"
DisplaySize 434 272
(only because the dcc-autoprovided size is not as precise as I'd like it
to be)
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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