Re: Display configuration capplet

[Bryce Harrington <bryce canonical com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:36:08PM -0500, Ken VanDine wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:24 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > Hi Bryce,
> > > 
> > > Le mercredi 13 f?vrier 2008, ? 01:56 -0800, Bryce Harrington a ?crit :
> > > > 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 :-)
> > 
> > In looking at http://www.gnome.org/~ssp/randr/capplet/, it appears the
> > development done so far has focused on a monitor hotplug feature and the
> > start of a cairo-based monitor layout canvas.  There is a randrwrap but
> > it appears to not have the xrandr 1.2 multi-head functionality, and
> > isn't integrated with the GUI yet.
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing this out though; I could swear I looked at that site
> > a week or two ago but only noticed prototypes/mockups.  Evidently
> > they've been busy coding in parallel to me, although we seem to be
> > aiming for orthogonal objectives.
> > 
> > Bryce
> > 
> Mind pointing us at your code?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Ken
> 
It's the multi-monitor-config branch here:

 https://code.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center

Bryce