SaX2 - X11 configuration made easy

SaX2 is a tool to configure the X11 system based on the XOrg version developed by freedesktop.org. The program comes with an easy to use Qt based GUI system to setup the most important features X provides. If called SaX2 will detect the graphics hardware including all graphics related peripherals and presents an automatic generated configuration suggestion. The user is now able to setup the system according to his needs using the GUI system.

Those who would like to write their own application for X11 configuration can use the SaX interface and its development library called libsax. libsax comes with a bunch of language bindings so no matter if you want to use perl or python or java... libsax will take care.

Features

Autodetection of all graphics cards supported under Linux
Autodetection of Keyboard, Monitor, Standard-Mice and Touchpads
Support for DualHead configuration based on MergedFB implemented by the drivers
Support for MulitHead configuration based on the Xinearma extension
Support for vendor specific drivers like ATI (fglrx) and NVidia (nvidia). Once installed SaX can handle them
Complete Qt based GUI system for easy configuration workflows
Graphical Tablet configuration
Graphical TouchScreen configuration
Display test mode with tuning tool to adapt the screen geometry
C++ Development library (libsax) to build your own config tool
Language bindings for libsax. Currently perl, python, java and mono are supported
Completely internationalized
Graphical VNC setup

Sources

SaX is hosted on berlios and is developed under the terms of the GPL. Currently SaX2 is standard on all SuSE Linux based products but I spent many efforts to make it build and usable on all other distributions like RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Build instructions can be found here: README

Packages

RPM packages for SuSE and Fedora: Download

Getting Help

If you have problems or questions concerning X11 and/or X11 configurations do not hesitate to contact me or subscribe to the SaX2 mailing list.

© 2000, 2006 Marcus Schäfer <marcus.schaefer@gmail.com>, Isny