I am currently running Linux Mint 17.2 with Cinnamon. I have 2 monitors. When I set monitors to be adjacent in Cinnamon settings, mouse freely moves through border shared between monitors but cann...

I'm running Ubuntu and I want to get the number of attached monitors, their current resolution and, if possible, their position in relation to each other. Because I don't like parsing Console outpu...

I have a laptop (Asus N55SF) with NVIDIA GT555M GPU, with Elementary OS installed (based on Ubuntu). I have Bumblebee installed, with NVIDIA drivers, which works. (optirun glxspheres has high...

Xrandr shows two monitors. I want to use xsetwacom to move all devices to HDMI-0 however the xsetwacom command towards the bottom does not recognize HDMI-0 Outputs: cloz@CLOZ-ELITE:~$ xrandr Screen...

My Sys specs : **Intel i7-8700k (Coffe-lake),Mother board : ROG(Maximus X Hero) OS :Ubuntu-Gnome 16.04** I booted My new PC with Ubutnu-Gnome16.04 , after installation the screen resolution is...

I have a regular expression that I'm using to try to detect screen resolution as follows xrandr | grep -P '(.*\d+x\d+)* | awk {'print$3'} which when I use in my script gives me something like this...

Here is an example call to xrandr: $ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output S-video --off --output DVI-0 --mode 1024x768 --pos 1680x104 --rotate normal Think a...

I'd like to use i3 on my Windows 10 Linux subsystem with two monitors. With: vcxsrv.exe :1 -nodecoration -wgl -multimonitors -screen 0 3840x1160 I can create one large Window that spans o...

Simple Question: Is there a way to resize a Xvfb display? I tried with RandR but it seems that the RandR extension is not supported by Xvfb. Are there other ways to resize the screen? Thanks for ...

I need to programatically get the refresh rate of a monitor. When I type xrandr (1.4.1, opensuse 13) on the command line I get: Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384...

I have setup the xvfb server on my headless server and when I m running the DISPLAY=:99 firefox I am getting this exception missing RANDR extension Many of them said to disable some xinerna from ...

My goal is to have an extended desktop like in windows. Linux only uses my second monitor as a mirror, which is useless. I have searched a lot on google and SO for a way to get this right. I want l...

I'm working on a project that is already using xcb and need to get the resolution of individual outputs rather than the resolution of the combined screen. Can I do this with the RandR extension for...

I'm trying to write a program that would detect external monitors being plugged in and automatically enable and configure them through Xlib. I know that there is XRandr extension that allows this. ...

I try to run Google Chrome on xvfb display, but google show error about RANDR extension. Problem is that I added RANDR to xvfb and it loaded it. So my steps are: Run xvfb server using command: X...

I want to use libXrandr in C++. Is there a suitable documentation?

I wrote a small shell script configuring attached external displays with xrandr. # cat /home/didi/bin/monitor_autoswitcher.sh #!/bin/bash xrandr | grep "HDMI1 connected" if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then ...

I was successfully using xrandr to extend my desktop in my work place with this little "script". #!/bin/sh xrandr --newmode 1920x1080 220.64 1920 2056 2264 2608 1080 1081 1084 1128 -HSync +...