Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-13 Thread Éric Piel
Op 12-01-10 21:39, allcoms schreef: 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

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Steven J Newbury
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:43 +, 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

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
Hi Steve! Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and display module is using to do what it does? I'm typing this atm under X.Org X Server 1.7.2, using the RadeonHD driver with a RHD 4350 connected to a

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:54 AM, allcoms allc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Steve! Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and display module is using to do what it does? I'm typing this atm under X.Org

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Éric Piel
Op 12-01-10 17:54, allcoms schreef: Hi Steve! Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and display module is using to do what it does? Are you really sure that it's what you were looking for!? Have you

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 Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:59 PM, allcoms allc...@googlemail.com wrote: 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

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

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, allcoms allc...@googlemail.com wrote: 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

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Markus Strobl
Sounds like you have an unlucky display. Even without an EDID, your TV will likely work with the standard HTDV timing modelines (it should for devices like cable boxes and DVD/BD players). Also note that some tv's automatically overscan HDMI for some reason, you may have to adjust the

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Éric Piel
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

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Didier Spaier
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

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 19:00 +0100, Didier Spaier wrote: Éric Piel wrote: Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? I would prefer a tool not gnome-dependent, as a _Fluxbox_only_ Slackware user ;) So you don't want to use a toolkit, but you want

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 13:23:00 07.01.2010 UTC-05 when a...@nwnk.net did gyre and gimble: Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? I would prefer a tool not gnome-dependent, as a _Fluxbox_only_ Slackware user ;) AJ So you don't want to use a

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-07 Thread Éric Piel
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

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-