Bug 189364

Summary:	add possibility to add modelines, in case the attached display is not recognised correctly
Product:	[Unmaintained] krandr	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	control center	Assignee:	Aike J Sommer <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, constant, myriam
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description S. Burmeister 2009-04-11 14:06:27 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Since not all monitors are detected correctly it might be necessary to pick a mode manually.

To do this the user has to do the following on each start of KDE:

cvt 1280 1024
# 1280x1024 59.89 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 63.67 kHz; pclk: 109.00 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync

to get the modeline
xrandr --newmode <modeline>
xrandr --addmode <>

If this could be handled via the GUI it would save a lot of trouble to all those that are not familiar with xrandr or the konsole.

Another issue is that "Virtual" in xorg.conf might not be big enough which kephal should warn the user about, yet I guess that is another bug.

Comment 1 C. Brouerius van Nidek 2010-07-18 13:00:26 UTC

the missing of a Gui program like sax2 and the difficulty to correct the problem on an easy way asks for a workable solution

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2015-01-23 00:09:25 UTC

Thank you for your bug report or feature request.

Unfortunately, we did not have a maintainer for the "krandr" components, which are used to manage displays and monitors in the KDE Workspaces.

The "krandr" components has been superseded by "KScreen" in newer releases of the KDE Workspaces. It is compatible with all versions since 4.11, and is also used with Plasma 5. Please check with your distribution how to update to KScreen.

If this issue or feature request is still applicable to KScreen version 1.0.5 or newer, please add a comment. We will then reassign this ticket to KScreen developers.

If you are already using KScreen to manage displays or monitors, and found a different bug or need a specific feature, please create a new ticket for "KScreen" product in this bugzilla using this link: https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=KScreen

(This is an automatic message from the KDE Bug Triaging Team)