Overview of Xrandr | Linux Today

Overview of Xrandr

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 3, 2011

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“I bought a new monitor at home and added a second
monitor in the office, so I had a lot to do with the graphics of my
Linux setup.

“What do you use in these cases? My preferred tool for all these
operations is certainly xrandr .

“In particular I’m used to use it from the command line version
and after doing some tests using the syntax that i’ve found in the
startup of the graphic environment.

“In this article we will see some common use case.

“The X Resize, Rotate and Reflect Extension (RandR) allows
clients to dynamically change X screens, so as to resize, rotate
and reflect the root window of a screen.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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