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I am running Window Maker. I used lxrandr to set the screen size, and settings for when a second monitor is added. The problem is, after restarting the computer, it reverts to the default settings. How to I save and keep those settings, so they are used whenever I start X?

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The lxrandr command is best suited to run from the LXDE desktop environment rather than from any arbitrary environment.

It saves its settings in a .desktop entry (compliant with Freedesktop) there:

$HOME/.config/autostart/lxrandr-autostart.desktop

which includes this entry:

OnlyShowIn=LXDE

According to the Fredesktop specifications that means this will autostart only on LXDE.

  • If Window Maker followed these specifications (I think it doesn't), you could try and remove this entry to have it still autostart.

  • Else you can just extract the Exec= entry and have it autostart the WindowMaker way, by (creating or) editing ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart and adding the command above. You'd have to do this manually each time you change a setting with lxrandr.

  • Or you could instead automate this by adding this in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart:

    sed -n 's/^Exec=//p' $HOME/.config/autostart/lxrandr-autostart.desktop | sh

which will execute the Exec= entry from the file saved by lxrandr.

Example of content (grep ^Exec= $HOME/.config/autostart/lxrandr-autostart.desktop)

Exec=sh -c 'xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60.00 --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60.00 --below HDMI1'
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