How could an application know the desktop scale factor? ????

[Ilya Anfimov]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 04:54:10PM +0200, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Is there any way an application could tell the current desktop scaling
> factor independently of the desktop environment in use?
> 
> For example Wayland has
> (https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/apa.html#protocol-spec-wl_output)
> and Mir has (https://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/struct_mir_display_output.html),
> which both could be used for telling the physical size of the output device.

 Obtaining  physical  size is relatively easy: if RANDR extension
is supported, than try to get information  with  XRRGetScreenInfo
on  your  window, and get per-axis dpi by dividing current screen
size in mm by current screen size in pixels, multiplied  by  25.4
(with respect to current rotation, as sizes reported for original
x/y axes, and their meaning could be changed by rotation).

With RANDR you can also subscribe  to  screen  resolution  change
events.

 If RANDR is not supported or reports 0 screen size -- than fall-
back to using XDisplayHeightMM/XDisplayHeight and  XDisplayWidth-
MM/XDisplayWidth.

 It looks like there is no practice of regular scaling windows by
a compositing WM, so you can assume that scaling factor is 1.


> So you can tell how to scale your application interface to have a good size.
> 
> This is for solving bug (https://developer.blender.org/T48292).
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 



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