libdisplay-info Marks Its First Release To Reduce EDID/DisplayID Parsing Fragmentation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: libdisplay-info Marks Its First Release To Reduce EDID/DisplayID Parsing Fragmentation

The first tagged release of libdisplay-info (v0.1) is now available for this new library that aims to reduce code duplication and fragmentation among Wayland compositors and other software making use of monitor EDID and DisplayID parsing...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/libdisplay-info-0.1

[Danny3]

Great!
I hope the developers from both KDE and Gnome sides contribute to it and of course others if they find it useful.
It would be nice if Kodi developers join this endeavor too.

[treba]

Great!
I hope the developers from both KDE and Gnome sides contribute to it and of course others if they find it useful.
It would be nice if Kodi developers join this endeavor too.

Jep, in the existing commit log there's already devs from wlroot, gnome and weston - pretty sure kde devs will happily pick it up as well. Let's see if anyone cares to wire it up in Xorg - would reduce the maintenance burden a bit.

[jonkoops]

One of the things I'd still love to see in DEs in regard to displays is the ability to control the brightness of external monitors. There seems to be a whole protocol that most displays apparently support, but AFAIK it requires kernel extensions and is not supported in most DEs.

[bkor]

One of the things I'd still love to see in DEs in regard to displays is the ability to control the brightness of external monitors. There seems to be a whole protocol that most displays apparently support, but AFAIK it requires kernel extensions and is not supported in most DEs.

I'm using the following GNOME extension for that: https://extensions.gnome.org/extensi...using-ddcutil/

The extensions allows you to control the brightness using keybindings. I'm using <Super>KP_Add and <Super>KP_Subtract (so win- and win+) for these. For best results it wanted to add rules to udev to automatically set the right group for the device it needs to control. Anyway, read https://github.com/daitj/gnome-displ...htness-ddcutil.

It would be nice if it was built in to KDE/GNOME/etc.

[avis]

OMG I guess in 10 years they will realize this should have been done from the get go. Ah, no, I'm joking, let fragmentation continue.

[caligula]

OMG I guess in 10 years they will realize this should have been done from the get go. Ah, no, I'm joking, let fragmentation continue.

X has a standard interface for this stuff. X is also still very much alive: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2023-Spain

[Berniyh]

X has a standard interface for this stuff. X is also still very much alive: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2023-Spain

Most likely > 90% of that conference will be about anything but X11. You know, Wayland, libinput, mesa, wlroots, that sort of stuff …

Why? Because people on these conferences usually talk about what they are working on and if only very few people work on X11 … you get the idea.

[eszlari]

DXVK already makes use of it:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/3076

[billyswong]

One of the things I'd still love to see in DEs in regard to displays is the ability to control the brightness of external monitors. There seems to be a whole protocol that most displays apparently support, but AFAIK it requires kernel extensions and is not supported in most DEs.

I am doing so via "gddccontrol". The program is not dependent on any particular DE as far as I know.