Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Scaleing in NeWS Message-ID: Date: 31 Dec 89 21:26:01 GMT References: <8912271740.AA04243.rxb@plutonium.ASC.SLB.COM> <9443@hoptoad.uucp> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16 In-reply-to: hugh@hoptoad.uucp's message of 31 Dec 89 02:55:36 GMT In article <9443@hoptoad.uucp> hugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel) writes: There is a simple solution to the problem of the current batch of moniters not being able to tell the OS what there DPI is. Simpley use a enviornment variable, say setenv DPI display1=72,display2=116 or some such rot. This even lets users change the dpi on there screens to say, make EVERYTHING look bigger. It seems to me that enhancing the console entry in the eeprom or adding one or more screen entries with DPI information would be a more permanent solution. After all, the resolution of the screen isn't likely to change with each user. I agree the user should be able to override this info, however, in a manner as Hugh suggests. -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)