Your message dated Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:54:00 +0100
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#589839: /usr/bin/xgamma: Still cannot set gamma on
multiple monitors attached to one screen
has caused the Debian Bug report #589839,
regarding /usr/bin/xgamma: can only set gamma on one screen
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Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.5+1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xgamma
In multi-screen configuraion the gamma can be set only on the first
screen. It is not obvious how to set gamma on the other screen(s), the
format of the -s option is not specified.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500,
'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.4.4-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.3-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.3+20 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests:
pn cairo-5c <none> (no description available)
pn nickle <none> (no description available)
pn xorg-docs-core <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 23:23:18 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Then this should be documented in xgamma(1) that the utility is in
> fact useless and superseded by xrandr.
>
Not really. xgamma can still be useful in a setup with multiple
screens. Feel free to submit a patch upstream if you want to clarify
the manual page, but in any case no need to keep this bug open afaict.
Cheers,
Julien
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