Hello, the coming XRandR support will require some changes to the layout of the main window and the monitor dialog, since we are going to support configurations that can be completely applied on the fly (xrandr for open source drivers) and file based configuration. Furthermore I would like to completely replace GNOME's resolution changing capplet.
So the user must have administrative privileges to enable mulithead with proprietary drivers or to make the configuration permanently. On the other hand temporarily changing the resolution (free and proprietary drivers) and temporarily using dualhead (free drivers) should not require administrative privileges. I plan to add a "Store configuration permanently" checkbutton to the main window, see http://glatzor.de/filesink/displayconfig/restore.png The checkbutton will be insensitive and inactive if the user is not in the admin group (cannot sudo to root). If the user makes use of proprietary drivers the checkbutton will also be insensitive but active. Clicking on the OK button will ask for the root password if the checkbutton is active. Perhaps I will find the time to use PolicyKit for this, but I am not sure if there will be enough time or how the future of PolicyKit will be. Input welcome. Cheers, Sebastian
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