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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: physical screen dimensions on a Sun
Message-ID: <14523@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 04:27:15 GMT
References: <8811010704.AA01663@sparky> <387@auspex.UUCP> <4089@encore.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <4089@encore.UUCP> bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Although I agree there's probably no way for a machine to know what
>size screen (physically) is attached to it this could be solved by
>simply adding yet another command-line switch to the X servers ....

Perhaps there should be standard files (probably in /dev) that contain
the physical dimensions of the screens associated with the various
frame buffers attached to a workstation.  If the hardware is changed,
the sysadmin can change the file in /dev at the same time.
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