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Tool for easily creating custom Xorg resolutions?

Creating custom resolutions is quite tedious. Surely I can’t be the first person to desire a tool which just does it for me.

Enter x, y, rate and done. That’s what I want. Quick feedback cycles. No running 3 commands manually specifying names or whatever; I don’t care how it’s called, I don’t want to have to specify.

Does it exist? Preferably CLI or TUI but I could live with GUI.

Shareni ,

github.com/alex-courtis/xlayoutdisplay

source: wiki.archlinux.org/title/xrandr

Atemu OP ,
@Atemu@lemmy.ml avatar

That tool does not claim to support custom resolutions in any way.

vvv ,

I have a stupid little script for this:


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">setres() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  output=$1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  width=$2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  height=$3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  xrandr --output $output --brightness 0 --auto
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  xrandr --delmode $output better
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  xrandr --rmmode better
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  xrandr --newmode better $(cvt $width $height | tail -n1 | cut -d'"' -f3)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  xrandr --addmode $output better
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  xrandr --output $output --brightness 1 --mode better 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">setres "$@"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>
madnificent ,

Nice script. What is the reason to toggle the brightness?

vvv ,

I didn’t like the random blinking and glitchiness the screen did as it changed resolutions. Most OSes, if you notice, do a little fade out and in but I was too lazy to make it gradual.

MonkderZweite ,

Putting it in a function and the setres “$@” bit is superfluous here.

vvv ,

Eh, though you’re right, it’s a pattern I like a lot: define your “main” at the top, put all the supporting functions below, and call main at the end.

These days I’ve got a little bash task runner framework that I use for little scripts like this.

D_Air1 ,
@D_Air1@lemmy.ml avatar

Funny thing about this. I had always though that creating new resolutions didn’t work because I would always encounter an error no matter what guide I followed. It wasn’t until a month ago that I discovered that the new resolution thing with xrandr doesn’t work on nvidia.

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