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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

--max
Obsolete and ineffective option. Used to select the xrandr mode
with the highest detected refresh rate. However, the maximum rate
might cause problems, therefore the explicit configuration in the
INI file should be used now, see CONFIGURATION.

--auto-number [ init value ]
Adding a auto-incremented numbered prefix to each display name,
optionally started at the specified value. This mostly useful for
menu creation.

--xrandr command
Replacement for xrandr command that should deliver equivalent
data and accept the same options as xrandr.

--activate combo-name
A shortcut to run the activation command of the specified combo,
just like IceWM would run the commmand when selected from the
menu or quick-switch dialog. The combo-name parameter needs to
match the displayed name exactly.

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 <https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues>.

AUTHOR

Eduard Bloch <mailto:edi@gmx.de>.

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.

icewm 3.6.0 2024-06-16 ICEWM-MENU-XRANDR(1)