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# Multiple Monitor Helper
# Helper for multiple monitors (based on xrandr)
This page is intended to show how to user `xrandr.lua` script to help the way you deal with multiple monitors.
Using this snippet you can set a keybinding where you swap to all possible arrangements of monitors.
The [[xrandr.lua|xrandr.lua]] script helps when dealing with multiple monitors.
Using this snippet you can set a keybinding where you swap to all possible
arrangements of monitors.
The process of setting up this script goes as follow:
The process of setting up this script is as follows:
1. Create a file called `xrandr.lua` in your file system (preferably in awesome's folder) with the [[script|xrandr.lua]] content.
1. Create a file called `xrandr.lua` in your file system (preferably in
awesome's folder) with the [[script|xrandr.lua]] content.
2. Import the script in your `rc.lua`
local xrandr = require("/path/to/file/xrandr")
```lua
local xrandr = require("xrandr")
```
3. Create a keybinding to the script in the appropriated globalkeys table
3. Create a keybinding to the script in the `globalkeys` table
Pressing this key binding will open a popup with a possible screen arrangement.
Pressing the key again will replace this popup with another possibility, eventually arriving at "keep the current configuration".
If the key is not pressed again within four seconds, the configuration described in the current popup is applied.
Pressing this key binding will open a popup with a possible screen
arrangement.
Pressing the key again will replace this popup with the next possibility,
eventually arriving at "keep the current configuration".
If the key is not pressed again within four seconds, the configuration
described in the current popup is applied.
```lua
awful.key({}, "Some Key", function() xrandr.xrandr() end)
```