On Sunday 28 May 2017 23:33:59 Pali Rohár wrote: > Explicitly document and make it clear that those options does not > change DPI of some monitor output. Also state that these options > have no useful meaning for multi-monitor configuration.
I would like to remind this patch. Can you review/comment it? > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com> > --- > man/xrandr.man | 14 ++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man/xrandr.man b/man/xrandr.man > index 55ea5dd..fec4a1a 100644 > --- a/man/xrandr.man > +++ b/man/xrandr.man > @@ -226,14 +226,20 @@ fit within this size. When this option is not > provided, xrandr computes the smallest screen size that will hold > the set of configured outputs; this option provides a way to > override that behaviour. > .IP "\-\-fbmm \fIwidth\fPx\fIheight\fP" > -Sets the reported values for the physical size of the screen. > Normally, +Sets the reported values for the physical size of the > whole X screen (not particular +output!) which consists of all > configured monitors. Physical size of the X screen does +not have > any meaning when two monitors with different DPI are configured. > Normally, xrandr resets the reported physical size values to keep > the DPI constant. -This overrides that computation. > +This overrides that computation. This option should be calculated > from DPI +value 96 as it not have any useful meaning for > multi-monitor configuration. .IP "\-\-dpi \fIdpi\fP" > .IP "\-\-dpi \fIfrom-output\fP" > -This also sets the reported physical size values of the screen, it > uses either +This also sets the reported physical size values of the > whole X screen (not particular +output!) which consists of all > configured monitors. Physical size of the X screen does not +have > any meaning when two monitors with different DPI are configured. > This option uses either the specified DPI value, or the DPI of the > given output, to compute an appropriate -physical size using > whatever pixel size will be set. > +physical size using whatever pixel size will be set. This option > should be set to +default value 96 as it not have any useful meaning > for multi-monitor configuration. .IP "\-\-newmode \fIname\fP > \fImode\fP" > New modelines can be added to the server and then associated with > outputs. This option does the former. The \fImode\fP is specified > using the ModeLine -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
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