ARANDR(1)

πŸ’– ARANDR(1) πŸ’–

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because this is the manual page for arandr β€” a General Commands Manual classic, and honestly? it's giving "I finally got my second monitor to stop being weird" energy. no cap. πŸ¦‹


✨ NAME ✨

arandr β€” a visual front end for XRandR 1.2 πŸ‘‘


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

arandr [savedfile]

πŸŽ€ DESCRIPTION πŸŽ€

ARandR is a visual front end for XRandR 1.2 (per display options), and the way that it just... hands you the whole thing?? iconic. πŸ’… It provides full control over positioning, plus saving and loading to/from shell scripts, and easy integration with other applications. like, your monitors are YOURS now. main character energy fr fr.

  • --version β€” show program's version number and exit ✨
  • -h, --help β€” show this help message and exit 🫢
  • --randr-display=D β€” Use D as display for xrandr (but still show the GUI on the display from the environment; e.g. localhost:10.0) πŸ–₯️
  • --force-version β€” Even run with untested XRandR versions πŸ’€
bestie, <pink>--force-version</pink> literally means running against XRandR versions that are untested. it's not a flex, it's a leap of faith. you've been warned. πŸ™ˆ

πŸ’œ SEE ALSO πŸ’œ

man 1 xrandr β€” go read it, iykyk πŸ“–


🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org> β€” thank you for the pixels, king πŸ‘‘


okay that's the whole page, you ate it up, no crumbs left. this was the arandr page from the General Commands Manual, dated 2008-06-03, and it's still serving. bye bestie, go arrange those displays πŸŽ€βœ¨πŸ’–

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