========================== ARandR: Another XRandR GUI

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
• Metacity key binding integration:
  • Saved configurations can be bound to arbitrary keys via metacity's custom commands.
  • Several layouts can be bound to one key; they are cycled through. (Useful for "rotate" buttons on tablet PCs.)
• 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

  • Slackware using a slackbuild by PhantomX_::

    wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/PhantomX/slackbuilds/arandr-0.1.4.tar.bz2 tar xjf arandr-0.1.4.tar.bz2 cd arandr ./arandr.SlackBuild 2>&1 | tee build.log

  • Gentoo_::

    emerge arandr

  • Fedora_::

    yum install arandr

• From source:

  • Fetch either

    • the latest release_::

      wget http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.7.1.tar.gz tar xzf arandr-0.1.7.1.tar.gz cd arandr-0.1.7.1

    • or get it directly from GIT (hosted on gitorious_)::

      git clone git://gitorious.org/arandr/arandr.git cd arandr

  • and start it using::

    ./arandr

  • or install it::

    sudo ./setup.py install

Dependencies

• python_
• PyGTK_
• xrandr_
• docutils_ (>=0.6; for building the man page)

Bugs / Caveats

• Changes while running are not caught.
• Versions before 0.1.7 depended on all modes to have a x name (see debian bug #507521_); if ARandR does not start up, please install the latest version. (On different bugtrackers, this is called the ValueError / "1080p" / "1024x768i" problem).
• See TODO_ for planned features.

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 <https://live.gnome.org/RandR#Storage_of_RANDR_configurations>_
• grandr <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/individual/app/>_
• grandr-applet <http://dekorte.homeip.net/download/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
• LXDE's LXRandR <http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXRandR>_, notable for storing configuration in ~/.config/autostart/lxrandr-autostart
• urandr <http://www.albertomilone.com/urandr.html>_
• zarfy <http://sourceforge.net/projects/zarfy/>_, notable for its nice use of a current screenshot

• cglita wrote a patch that solved the ValueError / "1080p" problem. His patches went a little further and include more precise mode line selection; I keep it around, and you can try it like this::

  git clone git://gitorious.org/arandr/arandr.git -b cglita cd arandr ./arandr

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. (Transifex and Launchpad translations were discontinued for lack of SCM integration and associated problems with attributing contributions).

Please send bug reports, suggestions, patches and git pull requests to me_.

About

Copyright © chrysn chrysn@fsfe.org 2008–2013, Себастьян Gli ţa Κατινα 2011, published under GPLv3 or any later version.

Inspired by the dual head sketch in the ThinkWiki.

Translations by

• Quizzlo (Italian)
• Phantom X (Brazilian)
• Joe Hansen (Danish)
• gundachandru (Kannada)
• HsH (Russian)
• Clément Démoulins, Bruno Patri (French)
• RooTer (Polish)
• Mohammad Alhargan, aboodilankaboot (Arabic)
• Mehmet Gülmen (Turkish)
• Ricardo A. Hermosilla Carrillo (Spanish)
• el_libre (Catalan)
• Carezero (Chinese)
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• Себастьян Gli ţa Κατινα (Romanian)
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• Alireza Savand (Persian)
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• Algimantas Margevičius (Lithuanian)
• Miguel Anxo Bouzada (Galician, Spanish)
• o-157 (Japanese)
• Ingemar Karlsson (Swedish)
• Semsudin Abdic (Bosnian)
• Rax Garfield (Ukrainian)
• Tamás Nagy (Hungarian)
• Mantas Kriaučiūnas (Lithuanian)
• Dimitris Giouroukis (Greek)
• ParkJS (Korean)

• chrysn (German, English)

  .. _XRandR: http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR .. _xsetwacom: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/xsetwacom .. TODO: ./TODO .. latest release: http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.7.1.tar.gz .. _archlinux: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/arandr/ .. _chrysn: http://christian.amsuess.com .. GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt .. dual head sketch: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Image:Intel-DualHead.png .. ThinkWiki: http://thinkwiki.org/ .. hosted on gitorious: http://gitorious.org/arandr/arandr .. _Debian: http://packages.debian.org/arandr .. _Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/arandr .. gettext: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ .. ARandR's page on hosted Weblate: http://hosted.weblate.org/projects/arandr/translations/ .. _me: mailto:chrysn@fsfe.org .. _python: http://www.python.org/ .. PyGTK: http://www.pygtk.org/ .. slackbuild by PhantomX: http://github.com/PhantomX/slackbuilds/tree/master/arandr/ .. _Gentoo: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-misc/arandr .. _Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Arandr .. docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ .. debian bug #507521: http://bugs.debian.org/507521