visual resizing and positioning of displays

[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 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
> 
> I would prefer a tool not gnome-dependent, as a _Fluxbox_only_ Slackware
> user ;)
Then, as a starting point you could also use grandr, but it's in pretty
bad shape, and doesn't have much "visual" part yet. Or maybe just fix
gnome-display-properties so that it can be compiled and executed without
much of gnome? Almost all of its core code is pure X calls anyway.

Eric