d.info - GRASS GIS manual
Author: GRASS Development Team
Description: d.info: Display monitors are maintained by d.mon.
Keywords: display, graphics, monitors

## NAME

d.info - Displays information about the active display monitor.
Display monitors are maintained by d.mon.

## 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)
-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
--verbose
  Verbose module output
--quiet
  Quiet module output
--ui
  Force launching GUI dialog

## DESCRIPTION

d.info displays information about the active display monitor. Display monitors are maintained by d.mon.

## EXAMPLES

    d.mon start=cairo

    d.info -r
    rectangle: 0.000000 640.000000 0.000000 480.000000

## NOTES

Units are screen pixels (except for -g flag where map units are used).
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.

## SEE ALSO

d.mon, d.vect, d.rast

## AUTHOR

Glynn Clements

## SOURCE CODE

Available at: d.info source code (history)

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