Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
+, allcoms wrote: Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? No, gnome-display-properties isn't sufficient to my needs as it does neither of the two features I am looking for which are: 1- Visual resizing (as in 'graphically' adjusting

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
xvidtune doesn't work with xrandr 1.2.  It needs to be updated to support multiple outputs. Alex Seems we've finally got the the bottom of my original question- thanks Steve and Alex! Does anyone plan on updating xvidtune to work with the latest X/xrandr and multiple displays? I would

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
With digital monitors you are almost always guaranteed to have an EDID (IIRC, DVI and HDMI require it) which should prevent you from needing to tweak the modeline as the EDID contains the supported modelines from the monitor. Alex I have a Mini 10 netbook with poulsbo gfx / HDMI out which

visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread allcoms
Hi! I have been looking for a tool for visually resizing and positioning X displays that is distribution neutral. I realise we have xrandr for listing and changing display resolutions and rotations but it doesn't seem to offer the ability to visually resize and position screens, a feature that is

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread allcoms
Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? No, gnome-display-properties isn't sufficient to my needs as it does neither of the two features I am looking for which are: 1- Visual resizing (as in 'graphically' adjusting the screens outer borders) and 2-