{"id":7002,"date":"2016-09-28T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2016-09-28T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T07:32:11","slug":"xrandr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2016\/09\/28\/xrandr\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: setting up dual monitors with XRandR"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maketecheasier.com\/how-to-setup-dual-monitors-with-xrandr\/\">https:\/\/www.maketecheasier.com\/how-to-setup-dual-monitors-with-xrandr\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RandR\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RandR<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My current employer gives me the opportunity to get familiar with quite a lot of his employees \u2013 they keep assigning a new desk to me every now and then, like once a week. I find making new friends and extending my social (scientific) network quite interesting and helpful.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;change&#8221; is the challenge, that faces you with a plenty of tasks and experiences \u2013 and last not least extends your compentence \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Today I am settling at a desk with just one monitor. The desk&#8217;s monitor had been resisting to the charms of a second 19&#8243; monitor, but I don&#8217;t\u00a0really agree to that kind of reduced working conditions. I found the confirmation and the support of the sys admin (our connection: &#8220;.ro&#8221; ancestry \ud83d\ude06 ). But after\u00a0I physically attached the 2nd screen (both through DVI), the left and the right monitor showed up as right and left. On my own SUSE Linux I would start <code>yast<\/code> straight away, but at work the sys admin was not around for a while \u2026, so no <code>yast<\/code> right now.<\/p>\n<p>But another helpful colleague pointed me to <code>xrandr<\/code> \u2013 and bingo!<\/p>\n<p>Some web research lead to me this:<\/p>\n<pre># lists the available monitors and their ids:\n$ xrandr -q\n\u2026\n# switches the logical side-by-side order:\n# (maybe you will need it the other way round)\n$ xrandr --auto --output DVI-I-2 --right-of DVI-I-3<\/pre>\n<p>Maybe somebody out there will find this text helpful. Writing it did in fact help me coping with the &#8220;pain of learning&#8221;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude2f\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.maketecheasier.com\/how-to-setup-dual-monitors-with-xrandr\/ https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RandR My current employer gives me the opportunity to get familiar with quite a lot of his employees \u2013 they keep assigning a new desk to me every now and then, like once a week. I find making new friends and extending my social (scientific) network quite interesting and helpful. And &#8220;change&#8221; is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saO0kP-xrandr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}