[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Automatic monitor aspect for X11

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 04:08:43PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> after seeing Reimar patch i looked a bit at how the monitor size can be
> queried from X11. As i expect it's pretty trivial, here is the
> (preliminary) patch.

Unless there are plans to implement it for anything besides X11, I'm
against the parts in aspect.[c|h].

> IMHO it should probably be enabled by default as i expect most ppl have
> DCC working nowadays, and if not they probably already have the right

I don't know why, but I once had a monitor that didn't know its own
size correctly...
The values weren't enough off to make it look wrong, but it still was
wrong...

> size in their config file for other stuff (like displaying postscript,
> etc). But let's test a bit first :)

Hmm.. which are the applications that really use this? I am only aware
of applications using the dpi value, and that has only created headaches
for me so far - so much that I always make sure that the X server always
gets passed -dpi 100 (it's really fun when programs really believe it's
99 dpi and scale fixed fonts down by 1%).
In other words, I just hate features that work "behind the back", esp.
when I got bitten by them once. So I am against ever making this the
default..

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger