Getting current screen resolution

[William Heymann]

On Monday 09 June 2008, Thomas Morton wrote:
> This is a "thing" that has been annoying me all morning: and I can't
> work out how to do it.
>
> I need a way to get the DPI or screen resolution of the monitor that a
> script is currently runnign on.
>
> I have a way in Windows but it doesnt port to Unix (which is important).
>
> Any ideas?


run xdpyinfo and pull the values you need from that.