Physical ouptut sizes

Matthias Hopf mhopf at suse.de
Tue Oct 10 10:47:56 PDT 2006


On Oct 10, 06 08:48:52 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> This is one of the reasons RandR 1.2 separates the monitor size
> information from the logical screen size information; using monitor size
> information, the application can know precisely how things are presented
> to the user while we let the screen dimensions continue to be used for
> overall application scaling as a user preference. Yes, this is an abuse
> of the existing screen dimension information, but in a world where the
> screen is purely abstract and many monitors present that data to the
> user, I'm not sure we've got a better plan.

Well, I'm content with this plan. And it will probably provide backwards
compatibiliy in an as smooth way as possible.

Thanks

Matthias

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