visual resizing and positioning of displays

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:59 PM, allcoms <allcoms at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> xvidtune doesn't work with xrandr 1.2.  It needs to be updated to
>> support multiple outputs.
>>
>> Alex
>
> Seems we've finally got the the bottom of my original question- thanks
> Steve and Alex!
>
> Does anyone plan on updating xvidtune to work with the latest X/xrandr
> and multiple displays? I would presume that if this was underway I
> would've had a response before now.
>

No one is working on it that I know of.

> I'm surprised there isn't much more interest in seeing this done on
> this list what with HDMI becoming more commonplace by the day- its
> fast replacing both SCART and VGA and the display connection standard
> for both TVs and computers/consoles and there could soon be millions
> of (potential) X users unable to use their displays properly due to
> lack of a working xvidtune or similar tool.

With digital monitors you are almost always guaranteed to have an EDID
(IIRC, DVI and HDMI require it) which should prevent you from needing
to tweak the modeline as the EDID contains the supported modelines
from the monitor.

Alex