Zarfy - Change Screen Resolution Gui - MultiMonitor Support
Zarfy - Change Screen Resolution Gui - MultiMonitor Support
Zarfy is a nice gtk gui for changing your screen resolution. Works well with multiple monitor setups.
Edit: I uploaded a stripped version as disciple suggested.
Edit: I uploaded a stripped version as disciple suggested.
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Last edited by jemimah on Sat 17 Oct 2009, 15:14, edited 1 time in total.
That looks like a nice find.
Requires gio - someone might like to post a link to the best package for that...
Also jemimah, it is good if you can make sure programs and libraries are stripped before packaging them. If I go to /usr/bin and run `strip zarfy` it shrinks from 283 KB to to 39 KB. If I then compressed it with `upx zarfy` it would get even smaller (you can find upx on the forum).
N.B. when I upx things I say that I have done so, as it may be a good idea for people to un-upx them if they're putting them in an .sfs or a remastered CD.
To strip libraries you need to use `strip --strip-unneeded some_library.so`; without the --strip-unneeded option it would break the library.
Requires gio - someone might like to post a link to the best package for that...
Also jemimah, it is good if you can make sure programs and libraries are stripped before packaging them. If I go to /usr/bin and run `strip zarfy` it shrinks from 283 KB to to 39 KB. If I then compressed it with `upx zarfy` it would get even smaller (you can find upx on the forum).
N.B. when I upx things I say that I have done so, as it may be a good idea for people to un-upx them if they're putting them in an .sfs or a remastered CD.
To strip libraries you need to use `strip --strip-unneeded some_library.so`; without the --strip-unneeded option it would break the library.
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here
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Ah, I think gio is included in recent versions of glib, so one would have to update that or install Puppy 4.3 (is that what you have jemimah?) to get it.
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here
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Jemimah man, you're just so awesome! You've been going around solving all my problems
First there was Pwireless2, I always wanted my wireless to connect automatically, then there was Icewm for 4.3.1, and now this...
You're so awesome! Thanks so much! Screen extension is something I've never been able to pull off no matter how many times I mess is xorg.conf and Xinerama, but you've solved it for me with one simple pet with gui! Thanks man, you rock!
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First there was Pwireless2, I always wanted my wireless to connect automatically, then there was Icewm for 4.3.1, and now this...
You're so awesome! Thanks so much! Screen extension is something I've never been able to pull off no matter how many times I mess is xorg.conf and Xinerama, but you've solved it for me with one simple pet with gui! Thanks man, you rock!
A slightly exuberant, but extraordinarily thankful,
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Actually I do know I say "man" kinda like a surfer thing or whatever, it's just how I talk I was gonna write an explanation of this but I thought that if you made comment I would then explain myself better
That aside, the point is, I'm very grateful
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BTW, I'm female too, don't know how many people know though.
That aside, the point is, I'm very grateful
Battleshooter
BTW, I'm female too, don't know how many people know though.
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Excellent - Have a good day, man!battleshooter wrote:Actually I do know I say "man" kinda like a surfer thing or whatever, it's just how I talk I was gonna write an explanation of this but I thought that if you made comment I would then explain myself better
That aside, the point is, I'm very grateful
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BTW, I'm female too, don't know how many people know though.
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Is Zarfy in Puppeee?. It was in Fluppy and I made extensive use of it to display on my digital TV . . .
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56496
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thanks I wrote an advanced menu to change screen sizes in gxmessage for version 2.16 of puppy
it was uuuuuggly but worked
this is much better
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gio is from the glib2 package I dont like to fill dependencies
with stray libs
for slaxers here it is
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/glib2-2.18 ... 3_SLXR.txz
*check your puppy versions glib2 number for the correct package
Joe
thanks I wrote an advanced menu to change screen sizes in gxmessage for version 2.16 of puppy
it was uuuuuggly but worked
this is much better
========================================
gio is from the glib2 package I dont like to fill dependencies
with stray libs
for slaxers here it is
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/glib2-2.18 ... 3_SLXR.txz
*check your puppy versions glib2 number for the correct package
Joe
Any chance of you releasing a Grandr pet with whatever deps it needs?jemimah wrote:It was until last week - I've replaced it with Grandr.Lobster wrote: Is Zarfy in Puppeee?. It was in Fluppy and I made extensive use of it to display on my digital TV . . .
Grandr is less buggy, and more intuitive, but it requires Gconf.
Have you checked that your second screen hasn't come unplugged?
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Folks:
Apologies if this is not the best place to post this query... but since this is a thread about "zarfy" which has been the most help of most of the relevant threads on the forum, I thought this might be the best place to post...
I have a dual-monitor PC configuration that I'm trying to get working reliably and it's been a bit tricky to get things working.
The PC has an EVGA GeForce 6200 512 MB video card (with DVI and VGA outputs) to which I have connected a Samsung SyncMaster S22B300 (DVI) and an eMachines E190HQV (VGA). The video card goes through some "flashy moments" on startup but it works pretty well once the O/S is running Ok.
The configuration works Ok with Windows XP-SP3, using the NVIDIA 6.14.13.774 Windows drivers and in this case, I have the 2 monitors running as 2 independent screens... so that's Ok.
Under Puppy (Lucid 5.2.8, Slacko 5.6, Precise 5.7.1), I get either both monitors working Ok showing the same screen/content (the screens are "clones") OR I get one monitor working Ok and the other monitor (almost always the VGA output) showing random characters in various states of solid colour, flashing cells, etc.
So, coming to the forum and searching out info on multiple-monitor configurations, I found a few threads that spoke about xorg.conf and there was a lot of X11 display configuring (most of which I've forgotten about from years ago)... and although I tried a few things with using NV or Nouveau drivers, and manually editing the xorg.conf file, I wasn't able to get any different behaviour from the system or the displays.
I then found this current thread and collected the "zarfy" package (thanks jemimah)... and after installing it and playing about with the program for a while, I was able to get the 2 monitors showing something sensible - a single large desktop with each monitor providing its own "viewport" on the large desktop (Samsung = 1920x1080, eMachines = 1366x768)... Not bad!
However, the problem is that the settings that "zarfy" applies don't "stick". That is, if I restart the X-server or restart the PC, the previous configuration of the displays is restored and I generally only see one working (DVI) display while the other (VGA) display shows it's old random characters.
If I simply run "zarfy", it gets the displays back to the way they were (albeit, with a mis-confgured background picture), where each monitor is displaying a portion of a single, large desktop.
Is there some way that I can capture the changes that "zarfy" makes and somehow fling that info into the xorg.conf file so that I don't have to run "zarfy" every time I start the PC?
Thanks for any forthcoming info.
Apologies if this is not the best place to post this query... but since this is a thread about "zarfy" which has been the most help of most of the relevant threads on the forum, I thought this might be the best place to post...
I have a dual-monitor PC configuration that I'm trying to get working reliably and it's been a bit tricky to get things working.
The PC has an EVGA GeForce 6200 512 MB video card (with DVI and VGA outputs) to which I have connected a Samsung SyncMaster S22B300 (DVI) and an eMachines E190HQV (VGA). The video card goes through some "flashy moments" on startup but it works pretty well once the O/S is running Ok.
The configuration works Ok with Windows XP-SP3, using the NVIDIA 6.14.13.774 Windows drivers and in this case, I have the 2 monitors running as 2 independent screens... so that's Ok.
Under Puppy (Lucid 5.2.8, Slacko 5.6, Precise 5.7.1), I get either both monitors working Ok showing the same screen/content (the screens are "clones") OR I get one monitor working Ok and the other monitor (almost always the VGA output) showing random characters in various states of solid colour, flashing cells, etc.
So, coming to the forum and searching out info on multiple-monitor configurations, I found a few threads that spoke about xorg.conf and there was a lot of X11 display configuring (most of which I've forgotten about from years ago)... and although I tried a few things with using NV or Nouveau drivers, and manually editing the xorg.conf file, I wasn't able to get any different behaviour from the system or the displays.
I then found this current thread and collected the "zarfy" package (thanks jemimah)... and after installing it and playing about with the program for a while, I was able to get the 2 monitors showing something sensible - a single large desktop with each monitor providing its own "viewport" on the large desktop (Samsung = 1920x1080, eMachines = 1366x768)... Not bad!
However, the problem is that the settings that "zarfy" applies don't "stick". That is, if I restart the X-server or restart the PC, the previous configuration of the displays is restored and I generally only see one working (DVI) display while the other (VGA) display shows it's old random characters.
If I simply run "zarfy", it gets the displays back to the way they were (albeit, with a mis-confgured background picture), where each monitor is displaying a portion of a single, large desktop.
Is there some way that I can capture the changes that "zarfy" makes and somehow fling that info into the xorg.conf file so that I don't have to run "zarfy" every time I start the PC?
Thanks for any forthcoming info.