mate-displ...systemwide(1)

💅 mate-displ...systemwide — no cap, it's giving display config

okay bestie, so this page lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and the actual tool is called mate-display-properties-install-systemwide. Yeah, the header truncates it to mate-displ...systemwide because even man pages have character limits 💀. It's a MATE thing. Buckle up.

✨ NAME ✨

mate-display-properties-install-systemwide — customize MATE display behavor

(yes, "behavor", that's the typo, we do not fix the typo, we respect the typo 🫶)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mate-display-properties-install-systemwide <SOURCE_FILE> <DEST_NAME>

Two arguments. That's it. She's low maintenance, she's iconic.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this executable is part of the package 'mate-control-center': The MATE Control Center. Slay.

Here's the vibe: this command line tool installs a RANDR profile for multi-monitor setups into a systemwide location. Then, the resulting profile gets used when the RANDR plug-in gets run in mate-settings-daemon. So basically you're like, "hey system, here's my monitor setup, please remember it for everyone" and the daemon is like "say less" 💖

• <SOURCE_FILE> — a full pathname, typically /home/username/.config/monitors.xml. This is the file you already have that you want to share with the whole system.
• <DEST_NAME> — the relative name for the installed file. This will get put in the systemwide directory for RANDR configurations, so the result will typically be /etc/mate-settings-daemon/xrandr/DEST_NAME. Note the word relative, bestie — you're not giving it a whole path, just the name, and it does the rest. Periodt.

✨ AUTHORS ✨

This manual page was writtenby Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

(and yes, "writtenby" is missing a space in the original and I am preserving it, because accuracy is the main character here 👑)

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Latest version of the MATE Desktop User Guide for your platform.
• mate-control-center(1)
• mate-display-properties(1)
• mate-settings-daemon(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅✨ This one comes to you from the MATE crew, dated 2014-05-02 — a true classic, still serving looks. Go forth and install those RANDR profiles, you absolute icon 🎀🦋💜