Op 07-01-10 19:00, Didier Spaier schreef: > Éric Piel wrote: >> Op 07-01-10 11:51, allcoms schreef: >>> 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 sadly missing from the hardware setup menus of many >>> HDMI displays and I've only seen in a software form for X in suse/ >>> yast's "Graphics card and Monitor" configuration module. >>> >>> AFAIK yast is GPL so I was wondering why this code hasn't been >>> borrowed, stripped of its yast/suse dependencies and made into a >>> distribution neutral, standard X config tool? I realise X isn't >>> licensed under GPL but such a tool would be fine for most people until >>> a similar tool was wrote under a MIT license or whatever might be >>> deemed more xorg friendly. >> Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features >> would you need? >> >> Cheers, >> Eric > > I would prefer a tool not gnome-dependent, as a _Fluxbox_only_ Slackware > user ;) Then, as a starting point you could also use grandr, but it's in pretty bad shape, and doesn't have much "visual" part yet. Or maybe just fix gnome-display-properties so that it can be compiled and executed without much of gnome? Almost all of its core code is pure X calls anyway.
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