Fedora 20 & Apple thunderbolt monitor - it just works!!!

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Fri Mar 28 00:25:42 UTC 2014



On 03/27/14 22:22, Tim wrote:
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> When you mis-set the DPI, you lose the ability for applications to
> show "actual size" objects.  Such as graphics designers, or desktop
> publishers, who want to design something with real-world
> measurements (i.e. centimeters, not pixels), and have the program
> show it at life size on their monitor.  Which it can do, when DPI is
> set right, as the physical size of the monitor screen is known, the
> pixels across and down it, and what DPI it uses.

i do not know what correlations of 'dots per' are in centimeters,
but i do know that with what they are in inches.

in inches, dpi does not lend towards getting "actual size", only
close, as in horse shoes, hand grenade, and nuclear bombs.

only way one can get close is to adjust height and width controls,
and then, unless one has laid out some huge amount of money for
monitor, i doubt that screen will be linear in vertical or in
horizontal.


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peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc.hago.

g
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