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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 3.9.0 2025-08-31 ICEWM-MENU-XRANDR(1)
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