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

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 pre

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
suspect my housemates son has half-inched it so looks like I'll have to get another before I can try testing xvidtune with my poulsbo. Should xvidtune be able to do what I want or will (external) HDMI/DVI displays confuse it? Dan On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Steven J Newbury wrote: >

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

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