Design intent

Provide a simple visual front end for XRandR 1.2, client side X only (no xorg.conf involved, no pre-1.2 options).

Features

• Full controll over 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 keybinding 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)

Status

Works with recent X servers supporting XRandR 1.2 or 1.3 (which is 1.2 compatible).

See TODO for planned features.

Installation

• Using your distribution's instaler:

  • Debian / Ubuntu:

    aptitude install arandr
    

  • archlinux using a PKGBUILD on AUR:

    yaourt -S arandr
    

  • Slackware using a slackbuild by PhantomX:

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

• From source:

  • Fetch either

    • the latest release:

      wget http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.2.tar.gz
      tar xzf arandr-0.1.2.tar.gz
      cd arandr-0.1.2
      

    • 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

Bugs / Caveats

• Changes while running are not caught.
• Depends on all modes to have a <width>x<height> name.

Contributing

If you are fluent with languages other than German, English, Italian or Brasilian Portuguese, you can add translations to ARandR using gettext. An easy way to do this is ARandR's transifex site.

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

About

Copyright © chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org> 2008–2009, published under GPLv3 or any later version.

Inspired by the dual head sketch in the ThinkWiki.