CVT(1)

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✨ CVT(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the cvt manual page, from the General Commands Manual section, iykyk 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

cvt — calculate VESA CVT mode lines. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cvt [-v|--verbose] [-r|--reduced] h-resolution v-resolution [refresh]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so cvt is a lil utility that calculates VESA Coordinated Video Timing modes. you hand it the horizontal and vertical resolutions you want, and it prints out a modeline that fully adheres to the CVT standard. no cap, that's it. 🎀

and the whole point? you can drop that modeline straight into your Xorg xorg.conf(5). main character energy fr fr 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • refresh — give it a vertical refresh rate in Hz. the CVT standard is lowkey obsessed with either 50.0, 60.0, 75.0 or 85.0Hz. if you don't say anything, the default is 60.0Hz. 🍓
  • -v, --verbose — warns you, verbosely, when the mode you asked for does not completely correspond with the CVT standards. like it will literally tell you, in detail. 💀
  • -r, --reduced — creates a mode with reduced blanking. this lets you get higher frequency signals with a lower or equal dotclock. slay ✨
but bestie, listen: not for Cathode Ray Tube based displays though. like genuinely, do not. 🚫📺

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Luc Verhaegen. 👑

this program is based on the Coordinated Video Timing sample implementation written by Graham Loveridge. this file is publicly available at <http://www.vesa.org/Public/CVT/CVTd6r1.xls>. CVT is a VESA trademark.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one's from X Version 11, libxcvt 0.1.3, and it's the CVT(1) page — go calculate some mode lines, you got this 💅✨

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