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CLUSTER DISPLAY-DATA-MONITOR · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-07-10

Monitor EDID editing tools

This cluster consists of desktop tools that read and modify monitor EDID data to enable custom display resolutions and improve display handling, including a wxWidgets-based editor and a patched compositor. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from – it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders are kwin-dual-mode, wxEDID, and wxedid, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2015: 1DEC 2018: 1JAN 2024: 1MAR 2025: 1APR 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2
JUL 2015SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 7 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01edid-editor0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility for editing monitor EDID data through graphical and command-line interfaces.
  2. 02ddccontrol-db0★1 moliveopen sourceProvides a database of monitor hardware configuration data for a display control utility.
  3. 03kwin-dual-mode0★3 moliveopen sourceA patched desktop compositor that adds a dual-mode monitor identification hack to improve display handling.
  4. 04semt0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that modifies monitor EDID data to enable custom display resolutions not natively supported.
  5. 05wxEDID0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop tool for reading and modifying monitor display identification data, including timing editor and text import/export.
  6. 06wxedid0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceEdits EDID data for display monitors via a wxWidgets-based graphical interface.
  7. 07python-pymonctl0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCross-platform utility that retrieves monitor information and controls display settings like resolution and orientation.

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