[RFC] xrandr: display gamma and brightness

Éric Piel E.A.B.Piel at tudelft.nl
Wed Jan 13 02:17:21 PST 2010


Op 13-01-10 02:41, Yang Zhao schreef:
> 2010/1/11 Matthias Hopf <mhopf at suse.de>:
>> On Jan 10, 10 18:02:20 +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>>>  * do not output raw gamma values or at least make it use less screen
>>>    estate and put it after the output it belongs to.
>>
>> Agreed, the raw color table entries are not interesting to the user.
> 
> People that actually use calibrators on their monitors may actually
> care what the actual curves are.  I certainly do like to have access
> to it, if only as a point of interest.
> 
> Although, the actual usefulness of the data is still debatable since,
> IIRC, it's data RandR caches, and not what's on the CRTC hardware.
> 

Well, the point of this patch is to give the info to the user in the
_same way_ he set it up. It might be useful to display the 256 * 3
values, but then it should be done only in a "super verbose" mode.

Eric


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