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AUTORANDR(1) General Commands Manual AUTORANDR(1)

NAME

autorandr - automatically select a display configuration based on connected devices

SYNOPSIS

autorandr [OPTION] [PROFILE]

DESCRIPTION

This program automatically detects connected display hardware and then loads an appropriate X11 setup using xrandr. It also supports the use of display profiles for different hardware setups.

Autorandr also includes several virtual configurations including off, common, clone-largest, horizontal, and vertical. See the documentation for explanation of each.

OPTIONS

Display help text and exit
Automatically load the first detected profile
Make profile PROFILE the default profile. The default profile is used if no suitable profile can be identified. Else, the current configuration is kept.
Load profile PROFILE
Save the current setup to profile PROFILE
Remove profile PROFILE
Run autorandr for all users with active X11 sessions
List only the current (active) configuration(s)
Dump the variable values of your current xrandr setup
Enable verbose output
List only the detected (i.e. available) configuration(s)
Don't change anything, only print the xrandr commands
Fingerprint the current hardware setup
Force loading or reloading of a profile
Set a comma-separated list of xrandr arguments to skip both in change detection and profile application. See xrandr(1) for xrandr arguments.
Show version information and exit

AUTHOR

Phillip Berndt <phillip.berndt@googlemail.com>
See https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr for a full list of contributors.

REPORTING BUGS

Report issues upstream on GitHub: https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr/issues
Please attach the output of xrandr --verbose to your bug report if appropriate.

SEE ALSO

For examples, advanced usage (including predefined per-profile & global hooks and wildcard EDID matching), and full documentation, see https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr.