[Gllug] Monitor position with xrandr

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Nov 28 17:12:20 UTC 2011


On 28 Nov 2011, Tethys . uttered the following:

> I have a pair of monitors:
>
> 	A is 2560x1400, seen by xrandr as DVI-I-3
> 	B is 1280x1024, seen by xrandr as VGA-1
>
> If I do "xrandr --output VGA-1 --rotate left --right-of DVI-I-3",
> 
[...]
> What I want is a setup that instead looks like:
>
>     +---------------+
>     |               |
>     |               |+-----+
>     |       A       ||     |
>     |               ||  B  |
>     |               ||     |
>     +---------------++-----+

You want --pos, and possibly a --transform afterwards as well.

Unfortunately this will be size-of-A-resolution-dependent, and might go
interestingly wrong if you change resolutions. I don't know how to fix
that.

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