xrandrl

xrandrl

Show names of outputs available to the X server.

This script uses python's ctypes library to access libX11 and libXrandr.

Requirements

sudo apt-get install python3 libx11-dev libxrandr-dev

Installation

$ pip3 install --user --upgrade git+https://github.com/fphammerle/xrandrl

Usage

xrandrl [-h] [-c] [-d] [-e] [-b] [-B]

The exit status is 0 if an output matching the specified criteria was found, otherwise 1.

optional arguments:
  -c, --connected  connected only
  -d, --disabled   disabled only (does not imply --connected)
  -e, --enabled    enabled only (does not imply --connected)
  -b, --backlight  outputs with backlight configurable via randr only
  -B, --no-backlight  outputs without backlight configurable via randr only
  -q, --quiet, --silent  do not print names of outputs
  -h, --help       show help message and exit

Examples

$ xrandrl --connected
eDP2
DP2-1
DP2-2

$ xrandrl --enabled
eDP2
DP2-2

$ xrandrl --connected --disabled
DP2-1

$ xrandrl --backlight
eDP2

$ xrandrl --no-backlight --connected
DP2-1
DP2-2

$ xrandrl --disabled --backlight || echo none
none

$ xrandrl --enabled --backlight --quiet && echo found
found

$ xrandrl
eDP2
DP1
DP2
DP2-1
DP2-2
DP2-3
HDMI1
HDMI2
VGA1
VIRTUAL1
eDP-1-1
DVI-D-1-1