Questions about Xrandr for GUI development

[Colin Guthrie]

Alberto Milone wrote:
> Hi, I am developing a GUI  for Xrandr in pyGTK and I would like to know
> a few things:
> 1) what does * mean?
> 2) what does + mean?
> 3) what does *+ mean?
> 
> I refer to the output of xrandr such as the following:
> 
> VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right)
> LVDS connected (normal left inverted right)
>    1280x800       59.9 +
>    1024x768       60.0
> TMDS-1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
>    1680x1050      59.9*+
>    1280x1024      75.0     59.9

Not 100% sure but I think * is the current mode and + is the preferred
mode for that output.

*+ is just when both those things converge (e.g. it's not a symbol in
it's own right, it's just two separate symbols)

Col