Re: Retrieving Horizontal Resolution

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/04/05

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    On Wed, 04 May 2005 00:18:55 -0000, Bob Parnes staggered into the Black
    Sun and said:
    > Is there a way for an ordinary user to run a script returning the
    > horizontal resolution of the monitor in use?

    "xdpyinfo | grep resolution" ? This returns 75x75 for me here, but
    that's because I've set things up that way specifically.

    > On my system (debian), get-edid requires superuser privileges.

    True. I don't know for sure what this returns for you that you want,
    because I get nothing that could be described as "resolution data" when
    I do "get-edid | parse-edid".

    > Alternatively, I could parse appropriate lines in XF86Config-4, but I
    > find that the actual resolution chosen by the system is not always
    > predictable.

    Eh? The first Mode listed in the Display subsection with the default
    color depth is the mode that X typically starts up in. You can always
    find out which of the available Modes you're using with "xvidtune -show"
    , which also might work for you.

    > My preferred script is python, but I should be able to adapt to an
    > example in bash or perhaps another language.

    The X functions that you need to call are all in C, so no matter what
    scripting language you use, you'll be doing a system() and parsing its
    output. HTH, 

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