visual resizing and positioning of displays

[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 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