Thank you Peter, that sounds pretty reasonable.

Best,
Tom

On Friday, March 29, 2013, peter dalgaard wrote:

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> On Mar 28, 2013, at 22:27 , Thomas Adams wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Well to my relief and embarrassment, I discovered my problem. About 5
> weeks
> > ago, I shutdown my computer and moved it. When I reconnected everything I
> > apparently plugged my HDMI monitor into the 'wrong' output port without
> > realizing it. So, on a whim, just now, I made the switch to the other
> port
> > and presto changeo -- problem solved!! The odd thing was, besides my R
> > graphics device window problems, everything else was fine...
> >
> > Out of curiosity, can anyone explain this?
>
> My best guess is that the pixel resolution was taken from the disconnected
> primary display and set to some safe standard value like 640x480,
> miscalculating the dimensions of your display, so that it ended up with
> huge "virtual inches".
>
> The reason everything else didn't notice could be that they work in pixel
> units rather than physical units.
>
> (There seems to be no really perfect solution to the problem of setting
> default dimensions: Pixel count gives stamp-sized graphs on hi-res
> displays, physical dimensions are meaningless on projectors and not really
> what you want on a tiny screen, and percent of display area is "undue
> imperialism" if you have a large monitor, intending to overlook many
> windows at once.)
>
> >
> > Thanks for all the help...
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Thomas Adams <tea3rd@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Luca,
> >>
> >> Thank you for the suggestion; I do have an Nvidia graphics card and I am
> >> using the Nvida driver; still searching for a solution, quite odd...
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Luca Nanetti <luca.nanetti@gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thomas,
> >>> any chance that you could have problems with your graphic driver? For
> >>> instance, if you have an Nvidia graphic card, I would recommend
> switching
> >>> from the 'nouveau' driver to the official Nvidia one.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> luca
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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