20 Jan
2005
20 Jan
'05
15:18
Joe wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] x,y geometry!?' on Tue, Jan 18 at 12:29:
C Hamel wrote:
Fact is, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on this topic [...] It is quite simple actually. x=horizontal measurement, y=vertical. Just take a ruler and measure. You can put these into Yast>Hardware>Graphics Card and Monitor>Change>Monitor>Change Configuration>Properties>Expert>Display Size in [mm]
X -configure *does* get that via DPMS (illustrated on an xorg 6.8.0 system named "dev") dev root # X -configure -verbose 2 -logfile xlog > /dev/null 2>&1 dev root # grep DisplaySize xorg.conf.new #DisplaySize 280 210 # mm --Danny, who distrusts rulers ;)