* Maciej Sitarz
* Mathias Svensson
* Matthew R Johnson
+* Nazar Mokrynskyi
* Phillip Berndt
* Rasmus Wriedt Larsen
* Stefan Tomanek
* andersonjacob
* Simon Wydooghe
+## Installation/removal
+You can use the `autorandr.py` script as a stand-alone binary. If you'd like to
+install it as a system-wide application, there is a Makefile included that also
+places some configuration files in appropriate directories such that autorandr
+is invoked automatically when a monitor is connected or removed, the system
+wakes up from suspend, or a user logs into an X11 session.
+
+For Debian-based distributions (including Ubuntu) it is recommended to call
+`make deb` to obtain a package that can be installed and removed with `dpkg`.
+
+On Arch Linux, there is [an aur package
+available](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/autorandr-git/).
+
+On other distributions you can install autorandr by calling `make install` and
+remove it by calling `make uninstall`. Run `make` without arguments to obtain a
+list of what exactly will be installed.
+
+We appreciate packaging scripts for other distributions, please file a pull
+request if you write one.
+
+If you prefer `pip` over your package manager, you can install autorandr with:
+
+ sudo pip install "git+http://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr#egg=autorandr"
+
+
## How to use
Save your current display configuration and setup with:
-```
-autorandr --save mobile
-```
+
+ autorandr --save mobile
Connect an additional display, configure your setup and save it:
-```
-autorandr --save docked
-```
+
+ autorandr --save docked
Now autorandr can detect which hardware setup is active:
-```
- $ autorandr
- mobile
- docked (detected)
-```
+
+ $ autorandr
+ mobile
+ docked (detected)
To automatically reload your setup, just append `--change` to the command line
If no suitable profile can be identified, the current configuration is kept.
To change this behaviour and switch to a fallback configuration, specify
-`--default <profile>`.
+`--default <profile>`. The system-wide installation of autorandr by default
+calls autorandr with a parameter `--default default`. There are three special,
+virtual configurations called `horizontal`, `vertical` and `common`. They
+automatically generate a configuration that incorporates all screens
+connected to the computer. You can symlink `default` to one of these
+names in your configuration directory to have autorandr use any of them
+as the default configuration without you having to change the system-wide
+configuration.
Another script called `postswitch` can be placed in the directory
`~/.config/autorandr` (or `~/.autorandr` if you have an old installation) as
takes place, and `postsave`, which is executed after a profile was
stored/altered.
+If you experience issues with xrandr being executed too early after connecting
+a new monitor, then you can create a script `predetect`, which will be executed
+before autorandr attempts to run xrandr. Place e.g. `sleep 1` into that file
+to make autorandr wait a second before running xrandr.
+
All scripts can also be placed in any of the `$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS`. In addition to
the script names themselves, any executables in subdirectories named
`script_name.d` (e.g. `postswitch.d`) are executed as well. In scripts, some of
autorandr's state is exposed as environment variables prefixed with `AUTORANDR_`.
The most useful one is `$AUTORANDR_CURRENT_PROFILE`.
-To install autorandr call `make install`.
+## Changelog
+
+* *2017-01-18* Accept comments (lines starting with `#`) in config/setup files
+* *2017-01-20* New script hook, `predetect`
+
+**autorandr 1.0**
+
+* *2016-12-07* Tag the current code as version 1.0.0; see github issue #54
+* *2016-10-03* Install a desktop file to `/etc/xdg/autostart` by default
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