On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 00:29, Frans de Boer wrote:
I understand your reasoning and appreciate the effort you put in to explain things. First of all: I use two 22" LCD displays - no CRT's anymore. Total pixel area 3360*1050.
Ah... I misunderstood that point.
Using the ctrl+alt+-/+ keys I could switch display resolution on the fly and use panning if needed. Using the xrandr 1.3 utility needs some study to make one or two scripts to implement the same behavior and have a quick response instead to using some arcane cli method for which you seem to have the man page also online because of the many different options. As far as I can see, we are living in a graphical world and cli's are still needed but should be hidden mostly from none technical users.
Now, I am technically trained and can find my way. But how am I to recommend this to others if a simple physical display resolution can not even be done anymore. Sorry, this is - in my view - no progress but a step back.
Well.. simple display resolution... is actually quite simple. In KDE4, you go to the Personal Settings > Display and pick it from the list. That's pretty simple in my opinion.. Ok, it doesn't have the convenience of fast switching between multiple resolutions, but.. to be honest.. how many people do that on a regular basis? Yes a few including yourself do for special use cases, but the vast majority run their TFT monitor at its native resolution... and never anything else. In your case, you can generate your xorg using nvidia-settings (it's in your KMenu) among other steps to tweak it up to your needs. Do I think the current situation is optimal? Nope... there were definite advantages to the old way.. but the new autodetect thing makes installing Linux (not just openSUSE) so much easier in most situations. What have the devs responded with? They say open bug reports on your specific use case ("your" meaning whoever is having problems) and they will try to fix it so it works as it's supposed to. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org