d.info(1grass)

✨ d.info — bestie, let's peek at your display monitor ✨

okay so this is the GRASS User's Manual page for d.info, and it's genuinely one of the most low-key useful little tools in the whole display stack. no cap.

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💖 NAME 💖

d.info — Displays information about the active display monitor.

and like, real talk: display monitors are maintained by d.mon. d.mon is the main character holding everything together. d.info is just here to spill the tea about what's going on with it. 🫶

🏷️ KEYWORDS 🏷️

display, graphics, monitors

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

d.info
d.info --help
d.info [-rdfebg]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🎀 Flags 🎀

• -r — Display screen rectangle (left, right, top, bottom) — it's giving ✨coordinates✨
• -d — Display screen dimensions (width, height)
• -f — Display active frame rectangle
• -e — Display frame dimensions (width, height)
• -b — Display screen rectangle of current region
• -g — Display geographic coordinates and resolution of entire frame
• --help — Print usage summary (hi bestie, what do u do again 👋)
• --verbose — Verbose module output (she talks a LOT, we love her for it 💅)
• --quiet — Quiet module output (she's in her silent era 🤫)
• --ui — Force launching GUI dialog (pop-up windows, very dramatic, very iconic 🪟)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

d.info displays information about the active display monitor. display monitors are maintained by d.mon. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it looks at the monitor that's currently slaying and tells u everything about it fr fr 💅

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

okay so watch this, this is the moment:

d.mon start=cairo
d.info -r
rectangle: 0.000000 640.000000 0.000000 480.000000

start the cairo monitor, ask for the rectangle with -r, and boom — she gives u the numbers. no notes. ate. 👑

📝 NOTES 📝

• Units are screen pixels — except for the -g flag, where map units are used. so if ur numbers look cursed, check which flag u used bestie 😭
• Where two numbers are given, the format is: width, height.
• Where four numbers are given, the format is: left, right, top, bottom.

Note: GRASS display pixel coordinates are measured from the top left. so the origin is up in the corner. do not come for me about the y-axis, that's just how it is 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

d.mon, d.vect, d.rast

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Glynn Clements — an absolute legend, we stan 🫡

🔥 SOURCE CODE 🔥

Available at: d.info source code (history)

Latest change: Friday Feb 07 19:16:09 2025 in commit: a82a39f673b97fafcfce1604dc3e6015cb96487a

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌈 this was d.info from the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual, and honestly? she's everything. go check ur monitor. go on. 💖✨🎀🦋💅