From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:22:07 +0200 Message-ID: <85ac7hhwps.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87slldpd8s.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <44AFB1E1.20906@student.lu.se> <8764i7kywu.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152599473 21152 80.91.229.2 (11 Jul 2006 06:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 08:31:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Blv-0002KA-D1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Blu-0000pJ-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Blh-0000ox-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Blg-0000oh-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Blg-0000od-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0Bmw-0006r1-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:32:06 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1G0Ble-0007yd-Rz; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5095D1C4CD72; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:17:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56914 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> Cc: Ralf Angeli , 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum