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Bug#589839: marked as done (/usr/bin/xgamma: can only set gamma on one screen)

Your message dated Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:54:00 +0100
with message-id <20110313225400.GA2933@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr>
and subject line Re: Bug#589839: /usr/bin/xgamma: Still cannot set gamma on multiple monitors attached to one screen
has caused the Debian Bug report #589839,
regarding /usr/bin/xgamma: can only set gamma on one screen
to be marked as done.

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Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.5+1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xgamma


In multi-screen configuraion the gamma can be set only on the first
screen. It is not obvious how to set gamma on the other screen(s), the
format of the -s option is not specified.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.4.4-2  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.4-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.3-3  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxaw7                       2:1.0.4-2  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.1-3  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                        2:1.3-4    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxmuu1                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.3.0-3  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.0.2-1  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  x11-common                    1:7.3+20   X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests:
pn  cairo-5c                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  nickle                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  xorg-docs-core                <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 23:23:18 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> Then this should be documented in xgamma(1) that the utility is in
> fact useless and superseded by xrandr.
> 
Not really.  xgamma can still be useful in a setup with multiple
screens.  Feel free to submit a patch upstream if you want to clarify
the manual page, but in any case no need to keep this bug open afaict.

Cheers,
Julien

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