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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to get current X screen resolution Post 302382711 by TonyFullerMalv on Thursday 24th of December 2009 02:16:58 PM
Old 12-24-2009
The output from xdpyinfo(1) also includes amongst many other things the line:
Code:
dimensions:    1280x800 pixels (301x192 millimeters)

that provides what you want, as long as you have only 1 screen.

But using xrandr(1) the following would do the trick:
Code:
$ cat ./xrandr_test.sh
LINE=`xrandr -q | grep Screen`
echo LINE = ${LINE}
WIDTH=`echo ${LINE} | awk '{ print $8 }'`
echo WIDTH = ${WIDTH}
HEIGHT=`echo ${LINE} | awk '{ print $10 }' | awk -F"," '{ print $1 }'`
echo HEIGHT = ${HEIGHT}
$ ./xrandr_test.sh
LINE = Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
WIDTH = 1280
HEIGHT = 800
$


Last edited by TonyFullerMalv; 12-24-2009 at 03:24 PM..
 

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vdltodmx(1)						      General Commands Manual						       vdltodmx(1)

NAME
vdltodmx - dmx configuration file parser and printer SYNOPSIS
vdltodmx infile outfile DESCRIPTION
vdltodmx reads the input file, which should be in VDL configuration file format. After a successful parse, a file in Xdmx configuration file format is written to the output file. The VDL file format is used with xmovie, which is available from http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/img/xmovie/xmovie.html EXAMPLE
Given the following VDL-format file: 0 2 2560 2048 Left two-thirds [restrict=*:2] 2 :2.1 1280 2048 0 0 0 0 :2.2 1280 2048 1280 0 0 0 4 1280 1024 0 0 1280 1024 0 1024 1280 1024 1280 0 1280 1024 1280 1024 2560 2048 Right two-thirds [restrict=*:2] 2 :2.2 1280 2048 0 0 0 0 :2.3 1280 2048 1280 0 0 0 4 1280 1024 1280 0 1280 1024 1280 1024 1280 1024 2560 0 1280 1024 2560 1024 the following DMX-format file will be produced: virtual "Left two-thirds" 2560x2048 { display :2.1 1280x2048; display :2.2 1280x2048 @1280x0; } virtual "Right two-thirds" 2560x2048 { display :2.2 1280x2048; display :2.3 1280x2048 @1280x0; } BUGS
If the VDL file is not in the expected format, the program will probably dump core. SEE ALSO
Xdmx(1), xdmxconfig(1), vdl(3), xmovie(1) XFree86 Version 4.7.0 vdltodmx(1)
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