Re: Display configuration capplet

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi Bryce,

Le mercredi 13 février 2008, à 01:56 -0800, Bryce Harrington a écrit :
> I am in the process of rewriting the display configuration tool we use
> in Ubuntu.  The hard part of this effort has been porting logic out of
> xrandr into libxrandr; keithp advises me to create a new library rather
> than add to libxrandr, but I may not get to that soon.  I assume you
> guys won't be interested in this until that gets done and take upstream.
> 
> In any case, here is a screenshot of what I have currently:
> 
>  http://bryceharrington.org/files/screenrez_a.png
> 
> This is just building from the existing C/Gtk screen resolution tool,
> and adding xrandr 1.2 calls for setting up additional monitors, etc.  It
> does not modify xorg.conf, although there are some settings such as
> increasing the Virtual Size which may require xorg.conf modifications,
> but I'm leaving that as a separate problem to keep the implementation
> simpler for now.

I believe some Fedora people were working on this too... You should
probably start looking for them so that we don't end up with two
capplets :-)

Vincent

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