hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

driconf is described as 'DRIconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure. It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to driconf for a variety of platforms, including Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, Haiku and Ubuntu apps. The best driconf alternative is hwinfo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like driconf are Dmidecode, arandr, lxrandr and WattmanGTK.
hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of...
ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.

LXRandR is the standard screen manager of LXDE. It manages screen resolution and external monitors. You can plug in another screen into LXDE or choose to use a big screen projector. Local screen and extenal screen can be used at the same time.

A Wattman-like GTK3+ GUI. Contribute to BoukeHaarsma23/WattmanGTK development by creating an account on GitHub.


glxinfo is a command-line tool that can help you diagnose problems with your 3D acceleration setup. It can also provide additional helpful information for developers.



adriconf (Advanced DRI CONFigurator) is a GUI tool used to configure open source graphics drivers. It works by setting options and writing them to the standard drirc file used by the Mesa drivers.

