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I need to know active screen DPI on Linux and Mac OS. I think on linux xlib might be useful, but I can't find a way how to get currect DPI. I want this information to get real screen size in inches.
Thanks in advance!
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The default dpi in Ubuntu is set-up to 96. To increase it, you will have to go to properties of the desktop. This you can do by right clicking your mouse or using the properties button of your keyboard. A window will appear and you will a “Font” tab on the upper side of this window.
On a mac, use CGDisplayScreenSize to get the screen size in millimeters.
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In X on Linux, call XOpenDisplay() to get the Display, then use DisplayWidthMM() and DisplayHeightMM() together with DisplayWidth() and DisplayHeight() to compute the DPI.
On the Mac, there's almost certainly a more native API to use than X. Mac OS X does not run X Window by default, it has a native windowing environment.
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