plans to improve dual head support in system-config-display etc?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 19 19:14:50 UTC 2008


David Mansfield wrote:
> Just curious about the direction this is going w.r.t xrandr 1.2 type
> displays.
> 
> I have an ATI and many co-workers have Nvidia with multiple monitors
> attached which work great using the new xrandr based configuration.  But
> sadly s-c-d doesn't really understand this in F9.  It only understands
> dual head in the old xinerama sense. 
> 
> Also, xorg.conf seems pretty poor for a users individual prefs. as to
> what resolutions to use, as it's system-global not per-user.
> 
> Can someone point me towards any prior discussion on how this is
> 'supposed' to work in F10/future?

I am not sure you have seen the work done in Fedora 9 on this

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/ReleaseSummary has a screenshot 
and some details too.

Rahul




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