On 16 Jan 2008 12:15:00 -0500, Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:37 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > > > On 1/16/08, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > There's a nice utility in development to give a nice shiny GUI for these things: > > > > > > > > http://albertomilone.com/urandr.html > > > > > > Unfortunately this utility seems very Debian/Ubuntu specific - for > > > example there's some code that shells out to dpkg and apt-get. Plus I > > > see some rather dubious code... First of all, it seems to want to run > > > as root, which shouldn't be necessary to use XRandR. Second, code > > > like this: > > > > > > self.command = 'sudo rm -R ' > > > self.remove(files, verb) > > > > > > seems to be begging to be exploited. I think that I'm staying far > > > away from this code... > > > > We are working on this for F9: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport > > > > Admittedly, we have not been very good at keeping that page updated, > > but Soeren hopes that we'll be able to land this in rawhide shortly > > after test1. Is that still correct, Soeren ? > > Yes, in fact, my hope is to get a prototype into test1. > > The code I have written so far is available here: > > http://www.gnome.org/~ssp/randr/ > > It doesn't really do anything yet though. > > > Soren Will that include an option to turn on and off used/unused displays? Like in my example from the first post? And I saw a comment on your page about fall back when external monitors are unplugged - that would be really essential. Thanks and I eagerly await to test and use new ranrd features in rawhide and fedora. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
