intel_panel_fitter(1)

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version 2.6 · 11 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

💖 intel_panel_fitter — bestie's guide to the panel fitter 💖

Okay so real talk: this is a page from the General Commands Manual for the one and only intel_panel_fitter, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. No gatekeeping, no cap. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

intel_panel_fitter [OPTIONS]

That's it. That's the whole vibe. You run it, you give it options, it does stuff. 🌸

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So intel_panel_fitter is this literal icon of a tool that lets you change the panel fitter settings — which means you can change the size of the screen being displayed on your monitor without changing the real pixel size of your desktop. It's giving "resize the picture, not the canvas." 🖼️✨

And the biggest use case? Working around overscan done by TVs and some monitors in interlaced mode. Yeah. TVs being extra. Not us dealing with it. 💅

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

Every flag, bestie. All of them. Let's go.

  • -p PIPE — The pipe you wanna use (A, B, or C — but heads up, C is only present on Ivy Bridge and newer, so don't come for me if C ghosts you on old hardware 👀).
  • -x WIDTH — The final screen width size in pixels. Needs the -p option or it's not happening, periodt.
  • -y HEIGHT — The final screen height size in pixels. Also needs -p. Teamwork makes the dream work 🤝.
  • -d — Disable the panel fitter. Needs -p too, and ignores -x and -y options — like, completely ignores them, doesn't even read them, they're on read receipts 💀.
  • -l — List current state of each pipe. Your little peek behind the curtain 🔍.
  • -h — Print the help message. When in doubt, ask for help, that's self-care 💜.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Honestly the examples ate, let me show you:

intel_panel_fitter -l

List the current status of each pipe, so you can decide what to do. Vibe check first, actions second. ✨

intel_panel_fitter -p A -x 1850 -y 1040

Change the pipe A size to 1850x1040 pixels. Slay at that exact resolution. 🎀

intel_panel_fitter -p A -d

Disable the panel fitter for pipe A. Bye bestie, you're off the clock 💅.

💀 NOTES 💀

Okay so, future tea: in the future, there will be support for this feature inside the Linux Kernel. So like… eventually it gets a glow-up and lives in the kernel. We're early. We're pioneers. 🧚

🙈 LIMITATIONS 🙈

Machines older than Ironlake are still not supported, but support may be possible to implement. So no, your ancient laptop can't come to the party — yet. It might get an invite one day. 😭

🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🔥

Found a bug? Don't suffer in silence, bestie. Report bugs on fd.o GitLab:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools/-/issues

Go off. Be descriptive. We support that. 💖

👑 Author 👑

IGT Developers <igt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org>

2012,2016 Intel Corporation

And that's the whole page, bestie — you're officially cultured 💅✨

Cute little sign-off for the receipts: this gem is part of igt-gpu-tools 2.6, dated 2016-03-01, and it's the intel_panel_fitter(1) manual page. Love her, know her, use her responsibly. 🍓🦋🎀

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