Finding Screen Resolution

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Net Llama!:
> On 07/17/03 18:14, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >The dimensions of the screen determine the DPI used to draw the screen:
> >
> >$ xdpyinfo | egrep 'resol|dimen'
> >  dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (339x271 millimeters)
> >  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
> >
> >The physical dimensions are 339x271mm; the logical dimensions are
> >1280x1024 pixels, which gives an actual screen resolution of 96x96dpi,
> 
> hrmmm, this got me wondering.  on one of my boxes i have:
> xdpyinfo | egrep 'resol|dimen'
>   dimensions:    1600x1200 pixels (383x290 millimeters)
>   resolution:    106x105 dots per inch
> 
> is it normal for the 'resolution' to be rectangular, rather than square?

Beats hell outta me. You can force whatever resolution you want using
-dpi with X:

XFree86 -dpi N,

where N is the screen resolution in dots-per-inch.

Kurt
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