On 06/01/14 01:28, Trane Francks wrote:
On 1/5/14 6:58 PM +0900, Daniel wrote:
On 05/01/14 10:25, Trane Francks wrote:
On 1/4/14 9:50 PM +0900, Daniel wrote:
On 04/01/14 20:53, Rob wrote:
Daniel <d...@albury.nospam.net.au> wrote:
As shown in my sig, on this HP 6730b laptop, I dual boot Win7 and
Mandriva Linux. My SeaMonkey profile is on one of the Win7 drives
so I
can use it when booting up into either Win7 or Linux. I have prefs.js
file's on my Win7 G:\ and in my Linux /Home mount. Both displays are
set
up to 1650 by 1080.
When I set up my (Linux) Mail & Newsgroups screen, I have the divider
between the Accounts Pane and the other two Panes set under the
"R" in
"Reply All". When I then boot up into my Win7 install of SM, the
divider
in the Mail & Newsgroup screen set at about the "d" in "Forward".
If I
reset it location to under the "R" in "Reply All", then, the next
time I
boot into Linux, the divider is under the word "Reply" (in "Reply").
Why is the one setting effecting the other?? Or where is the setting
for
this screen stuff kept, that one OS set-up can effect the other OS's
set-up??
This setting is not in prefs.js but in another file within the
profile,
panacea.dat.
Using my Linux File search tool, I found thirteen panacea.dat's, one on
my Linux Hume mount and twelve spread over the Windows drives, with one
(on my Win G:\, where my profile is located) shown as modified
today, so
I guess that's the one both profiles use.
Still if both systems are set to 1650 by 1080, why do the positions
change??
When you have tricked the setup in such a way that both systems use
the same profile (not clear from the above description), it is to be
expected that changing the setting in one OS affects the other.
No trick, just set up the Win7 profile, then booted into Linux SM and
pointed it towards the Win 7 G:\ location.
Daniel, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Windows and X
Windows System are using different DPI settings for the same screen
resolution, e.g., 72 dpi vs 99 dpi. This is changing the divider
positioning in the toolbar. The only way to fix the divider positioning
would be to get each respective windowing system to use the same DPI.
Thanks, Trane, but are you suggesting that 1650 by 1080 doesn't mean the
same 1650 by 1080??
I've always thought 1650 by 1080 meant 1650dpi by 1080dpi. Does it just
mean there are 1650 dots across the width of the screen and 1080 dots
vertically on the screen?? i.e. 135dpi horizontally by 135dpi
vertically??
If so, YL,YL!!
Hi.
1650x1080 is a measure of pixels. DPI designates the pixels per inch on
the display medium. If I recall correctly, Windows operating systems
assume a display of 96 DPI. The X Window System defaults to 75 DPI. The
long-time industry standard of 72 DPI comes from the old Macintosh
systems that physically had that resolution on their monitors.
O.K., that and the X config instruction you give below, makes sense.
If I set my Linux screen up for a two inch wide column @ 129dpi, then,
in Windows @ 96dpi, the column would be approx 2.75 inches wide!
Now, to see if I can increase the Windows dpi setting!!
Your question about resolution is exactly accurate: 1650x1080 simply
means that there is 1650 horizontal pixels and 1080 vertical pixels,
irrespective of the physical display size. So, my 23" 1080p display has
a more dense DPI than one who has a 30" 1080p display.
If you want to check whether X is configured correctly, you can check
with:
$ xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution
print screen: no
dimensions: 1680x1050 pixels (331x207 millimeters)
resolution: 129x129 dots per inch
(so my guesstimate of 135 x 135 wasn't far off!!)
Newer monitors should be able to return the physical monitor size to the
X Window System, so manual declarations shouldn't generally be
necessary. That said, I have had monitors in the past that I needed to
manually define DisplaySize for things to look right.
It's been ~6 years since I last ran a Linux box, so I don't remember
much more than that. All I can suggest is that if your configuration
file doesn't specify the correct dimensions, you /may/ not get the
correct DPI output. Been there, done that.
Thanks, Trane.
--
Daniel
Seasons Greetings to one and all!!
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