ARandR: Another XRandR GUI



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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.

Features Full control over output positioning (instead of plain "left of") with edge snapping

Saving configurations as executable shell scripts (configurations can be loaded without using this program)

Configuration files can be edited to include additional payload (like xsetwacom commands tablet PC users need when rotating), which is preserved when editing

Main widget separated from packaged application (to facilitate integration with existing solutions)

Installation Using your distribution's installer: Debian / Ubuntu: aptitude install arandr archlinux: pacman -S arandr Gentoo: emerge arandr Fedora: yum install arandr OpenSUSE: zypper in arandr Slackware: see slackbuilds.org

From source: Fetch either the latest release: wget http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.10.tar.gz tar xzf arandr-0.1.10.tar.gz cd arandr-0.1.10 or get it directly from GIT (hosted on GitLab): git clone https://gitlab.com/arandr/arandr cd arandr and start it using: ./arandr or install it: sudo ./setup.py install



Dependencies python 3

PyGObject

pycairo

xrandr

docutils (for building the man page)

Bugs / Communication There exists a list of bugs (and feature requests and general wishlist). If there is a problem or you want to request a feature, just report it.

New releases are announced as published tags and can be subscribed as an ATOM feed.

Ongoing development An overhauled version of ARandR is in the works in the next branch found in the git repository. Feature parity with the current releases has not been reached, but some interesting features are already implemented: Parsing of the complete --verbose output, including properties

output, including properties Setting refresh rates

Auto-discovery of DISPLAY in remote contexts

Simulation and regression test infrastructure Features targetted for the first release from the new branch: Setting properties

Parsing EDID information

Similar projects A number of other programs exist that cover similar functionality, often bundled with a particular desktop environment. Those I know of are, in alphabetical order: Gnome's gnome-control-center display , notable for its ~/.config/monitors.xml persistence

, notable for its persistence grandr

grandr-applet (which seems not to be related to grandr)

KDE's RandR tool krandrtray , notable for being the only listed program to be Qt based

, notable for being the only listed program to be Qt based LXDE's LXRandR, notable for storing configuration in ~/.config/autostart/lxrandr-autostart

urandr

zarfy, notable for its nice use of a current screenshot

Contributing If you are fluent with languages not yet supported, you can add translations to ARandR using gettext. An easy way to do this is ARandR's page on hosted Weblate. If you want to contribute code, contact me directly or send bug reports, suggestions, patches and git pull requests to the bugtracker. If you want to support the project via flattr, you can flattr this.