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Hello,
Are there any system variables I can access from a script that would
tell me the current resolution of the X window system? If not, are
there some sort of system calls I can make to determine this?
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Andrew R. Falanga (a non-HP employee)
Hewlett-Packard Company
11311 Chinden Blvd.
Boise, Idaho
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:16:53 -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Are there any system variables I can access from a script that would
> tell me the current resolution of the X window system? If not, are
> there some sort of system calls I can make to determine this?
xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
To get just the (e.g.) 1024x768
xdpyinfo | grep dimensions | cut -d ' ' -f 7
Cheers,
Ingo
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