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NAME

icewm-menu-xrandr - IceWM menu provider for multi-monitor setup shortcuts

SYNOPSIS

icewm-menu-xrandr

DESCRIPTION

icewm-menu-xrandr is a helper to manage multi-screen configurations in a semi-automated way. It is a regular icewm menu generator that detects the available xrandr screens (i.e. connected monitors) and creates menu entries that call the xrandr command to setup this configuration.

Optionally, the contents of the generated configurations can be accessed on-the-fly through a “quick-switch” style menu which pops up upon pressing Super-P key binding (or a manually configured key, see icewm-keys(5) for the configuration of switchkey directive).

The tool does not examine the exact monitor resolutions, refresh rates or screen orientation. For this matters it uses auto selected mode by default. However, it is possible to replace the custom option selection for each output using xrandr options in a custom configuration file (see CONFIGURATION below). Also tuning specific options like --brightness and –gamma is possible there.

The displayed name of the monitors is constructed using the output name and the monitor information from its EDID data. Either from its “Display Name” field or from the “Unspecified ASCII text” fields (concatenated).

OPTIONS

CONFIGURATION

Optionally, a local configuration can specify command line options to xrandr calls, and further commands to run after mode switching.

Refer to configuration examples (xrandr_menu) in icewm documentation or its contrib folder for the syntax and rules of that file. It can be placed into $HOME/.config/icewm or into $HOME/.icewm or wherever $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.config/icewm might resolve to.

SEE ALSO

icewm(1), xrandr(1).

BUGS

Please report bugs at Github.

AUTHOR

Eduard Bloch.

LICENSE

icewm-menu-xrandr is licensed under the Simplified BSD License. IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution.

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