GNU bug report logs - #63384
x-display-mm-width and x-display-mm-height both return 0 on wayland

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: tomasralph2000 <at> gmail.com
Cc: 63384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63384: x-display-mm-width and x-display-mm-height both
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:12:19 +0800

tomasralph2000 <at> gmail.com writes:

> Sigh... The number of excuses GNOME people can come up for their own failings is astonishing. Thomas, if you run: $ wayland-info then, somewhere alongside the descriptions of each output, should be their respective EDID blobs. Would you please send them here, so that I can see if some accurate information can be extracted? 
>
> Sure! Here you go:

Hmm, it looks as if my understanding of the Wayland protocol is
incorrect.  Upon further investigation, there seems to be no way to
portably obtain the EDID blob from an output.

What does the X modesetting driver think of your output's geometry?

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