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From: daniel@mirsa.inria.fr (Daniel Dardailler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DIX-AID
Message-ID: <471@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 27 Dec 89 10:35:19 GMT
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Sam writes:
> There is no way for the server to know the exact size of your
> personal monitor, so the best it can do is estimate based on averages.  

There is a -dpi option in the sample X server from mit, but it seems
to be turned off in most of the actual implementations...

Since there is no way in the X11 protocol to *set* DisplaySizeinMM (just
a way to get it), we could use some kind of property mechanism, based on a 
particuliar convention, to inform the X server of its real screen size.