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:

    ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge arandr
    

    (or ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" ... for 64-bit systems)

• From source:

  • Fetch either

    • the latest release:

      wget http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.5.tar.gz
      tar xzf arandr-0.1.5.tar.gz
      cd arandr-0.1.5
      

    • 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.

• Depends on all modes to have a <width>x<height> name (see debian bug #507521).

  • cglita wrote a patch that solves the problem. Until a version is released that includes the changes, use his version if the above does not work for you:

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

• See TODO for planned features.

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 transifex site or on its Launchpad translation site.

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

About

Copyright © chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org> 2008–2011, 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)
• wimfeijen (Dutch)
• sjb, Себастьян Gli ţa Κατινα (Romanian)
• Slavko (Slovak)
• Alireza Savand (Persian)
• chrysn (German, English)