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>determining screen resolution</H3>
<p><strong>From Bob Krovetz
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<p align="right"><strong>Answered By Thomas Adams, Karl-Heinz Herrmann, Dominik Vogt (from the FVWM list)
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I'm using RedHat 6.2 and the fvwm2 window manager.
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> [Thomas]
Hello,
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I have CC'ed this e-mail to the FVWM2 Mailing List
(of which I am a member). They might also be able to
help --
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In my fvwm2rc
file I tell the system where to put my calendar, browser, and other
windows on my desktop. I specify the locations and the size of the windows.
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> [Thomas]
What you mean is, you use specify the geometry. I
would recommend putting these in your $HOME/.Xdefaults
file (often symlinked to $HOME/.Xresources).
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If I switch to a different display with a lower screen resolution then these
values will be inappropriate. Is there a way to get the screen resolution
so that I can scale the values appropriately?
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Thanks,
Bob
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> [Thomas]
Yes, there is, but you'll have to do it manually if
you are switching to a higher/lower resolution.
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If you do this switching by using the Alt-Ctrl-Keypad + or - he resolution
will change but <EM>not</EM> the screen size. You will get a virtual screen size
(visual in XF86Config) of your maximum resolutin (i.e. if you run your max
resolution everything will be visible at once, on lower resolutions you will
have to scroll around on the screen).
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In this case the placement and size of windows can stay the same.
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I switched screen several times in the past and in that case I changed the
max. resolution and therefore the actual virtual screen sizes. I had to
change the settings in .fvwm2rc and/or .Xdefaults to get a good placement of
the initial startup windows again.
I don't know of a way to automatize this, something like "one xterm half
screen width at the left screen edge" would sure be nice -- unless that would
be too small.
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> [from Fvwm List -- Dominik Vogt]
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In 2.4.x, you can use $[vp.width] and $[vp.height]
to get the screen's (viewport's) dimensions.
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Bye
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Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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I was thinking in particular about a switch between a desktop machine
and a laptop. I can use a different .fvwm2rc and .Xdefaults file for
the two machines, but it would be nice to have one set of files for both.
It would also be nice to have the display reconfigured when I use
Alt-ctrl + or -. Even if the screen initially doesn't look right, if
the fvwm2rc file is based on using the screen resolution then I can
just restart the window-manager.
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