On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:07:33AM -0600, Richard C. Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Stan Brown did write: <...> > I know a little bit about this, being pedantic enough to want to set up > X 'correctly'. <...> > resolution by gimp's monitor resolution in px/mm to get the displayed > area in mm, and plug that into X, in the DisplaySize line. Here's the
I've done a similar thing with X-3.3.6, manually, at the urging of the LyX documentation... it was worth the effort (as was promised if the actual dpi was more than 5 from what X was using. - switch to your most common display mode - set the background color to something other than the border color - measure the width of the visible display area - divide the number of pixels by the measurement to get the actual dpi e.g., the display measures 274mm across (= 10.787 in.) with 1024 pixels... 1024 / 10.787 = 94.929 pixels per inch, or 95 dpi - tell the Xserver the correct dpi (snoop around /etc/X11, it is not in the XF86Config file for 3.3.6, but is clearly marked). - Bruce
