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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 CONFIGURA-
TION 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, option-
ally started at the specified value. This mostly useful for menu cre-
ation.
--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 dis-
played 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/.con-
fig/icewm might resolve to.
SEE ALSO
icewm(1), xrandr(1).
BUGS
Please report bugs at <https://github.com/ice-wm/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 4.0.0 2026-01-01 ICEWM-MENU-XRANDR(1)
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