From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jan 31 12:50:50 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:50:50 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] X11 device distortion (PR#10666)
Message-ID: <20080131115050.8A07D283462E@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, t.zumbrunn at unibas.ch wrote:

> Full_Name: Thomas Zumbrunn
> Version: 2.6.1
> OS: GNU/Linux (openSuse 10.3 2.6.22.13-0.3-default)
> Submission from: (NULL) (131.152.125.199)
>
>
> With my particular X11 settings, the width to height ratio of the x11 device is
> distorted, with the width being half that of the height. This results in wrongly
> proportioned plots, wrongly positioned text etc.

So your X11 settings are wrong: R is just using what X11 tells it.

The most likely setting is DisplaySize in xorg.conf, which controls how
inches are mapped to pixels.

>
> Other devices are not affected.
>
> I already asked about his on the mailing list
> (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-December/147891.html) but no one
> seemed to have an answer.
>
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[Rd] X11 device distortion (PR#10666)
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