Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Cc: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>,  lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se,
>>> 	  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  jasonr@gnu.org
>>> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
>>> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:30:24 +0200
>>> 
>>> First of all, it had to be done per-display (at least X supports
>>> multiple display),
>>
>> The API supports that: display-mm-width accepts an argument, the
>> name of a particular display.
>
> That wasn't the problem I had in mind -- it was to find a consistent
> way for the user to specify the resolution for a specific display.
>
> E.g. something like
>
> (x-set-display-resolution RESX RESY &optional DISPLAY)
>
> will work, but that only works if DISPLAY uniquely identifies
> a specific physical VDU.
>
> I would rather have it be defined with defcustom.

I think that's the wrong way.  One should rather tell the user how to
set this inside of his operating system instead of fudging around in
Emacs.

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