[PATCH] show preferred/current modes in xrandr --verbose

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 07:26:42 PDT 2007


On 8/9/07, Brice Goglin <brice.goglin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unless I am mistaking, xrandr --verbose doesn't show the preferred and
> current modes as the plain xrandr does with * and +. The attached patch
> does this:
>
>   1600x1200 (0x66)  162.0MHz +HSync +VSync *+
>         h: width  1600 start 1664 end 1856 total 2160 skew    0 clock
> 75.0KHz
>         v: height 1200 start 1201 end 1204 total 1250           clock
> 60.0Hz
>   1600x1200 (0x67)  161.0MHz -HSync +VSync
>         h: width  1600 start 1712 end 1880 total 2160 skew    0 clock
> 74.5KHz
>         v: height 1200 start 1203 end 1207 total 1245           clock
> 59.9Hz
>
> Also, it'd be good to add something like the following at the beginning
> of the description in the page:
> "When invoked without options, xrandr will dump the state of the
> outputs, showing the existing modes for each of them, with a '+' near
> the preferred mode and a '*' near the current mode."
>
> If it's ok, I can take care of committing it...
>

Looks good to me.  I'd say this should go in.

Alex



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