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Zarfy updated in Scarthgap and Daedalus

April 29, 2025 — BarryK

Zarfy multiple monitor manager is somewhat broken in Easy, and Norman (NNI in the forum) sent me some workarounds.

The source code is a bit old; it is version 0.1.0 with some patches. I have compiled the latest source from the master branch here:

https://github.com/rbtylee/zarfy

Working OK, so have updated the PETs for both Easy Daedalus and Scarthgap.

I'll let Norman know about this and he can give it a spin in the next release, see if anything still needs to be fixed.

Note that if all you want to do is change the screen resolution of a single monitor, don't use Zarfy; instead run QuickSetup (in Setup menu category), or the Xrandrshell module of QuickSetup:

https://bkhome.org/news/202012/proposal-enhance-xrandrshell-to-replace-zarfy.html

...the advantage of this is that the resolution is applied when Xorg starts, not switched by xrandr after Xorg already running (which is what Zarfy does, at least the way I have set it up).        

Tags: easy