Em Monday, 13 de June de 2011, às 15:32:50, Arjan van de Ven escreveu: > On 6/13/2011 3:27 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > > But it could be worse than you think. The size info would be useful for > > displays that are not build into the meego device. Docking stations, > > projectors and the like. That is where it gets really interesting, and > > uxlaunch probably has less control. > > the good news is that, for things like MacOS and Windows to work, > external devices report their dimensions > relatively accurately in general.... with exceptions few and far between > (it's an interesting question what size a "wall projector" has ;-)
The problem is that actual dimensions, resolution and DPI are tied to one
another. Some systems are known to force the DPI value at a specific number and
they do that by changing the actual dimensions reported by X.
I've seen this even presented as a configuration setting to users in some
systems...
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