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Christian Amsüss
Personal blog · christian.amsuess.com/blogprogramminghardware
Christian Amsüss writes chrysn's tagblog, a personal blog at christian.amsuess.com about programming and hardware. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the project page for ARandR, a GUI for arranging multi-monitor layouts with XRandR, which commenters suggest for display setup. Comments are tool pointers, not judgments of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /tools/arandr/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-23
What Hacker News says?
If you're not letting gnome manage the settings for you, arandr and autorandr can help (the first for adjusting, the second for saving/restoring profiles): https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/ https://github.com/wertarbyte/autorandr
Comment linking /tools/arandr/
on “Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)”Submitted Building a CoAP Application on Ariel OS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou may want to give ARandR a shot: https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/
Comment linking /tools/arandr/
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?”TIL: ARandR is a tool to control output positioning and properties of multiple monitors using XRandR. https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/ Recently set up something similar for Windows as a win in the battle against time wasted thanks to auto-logout. https://github.com/caoyue/WindowResizer
Comment linking /tools/arandr/
on “You Too Could Have Made Curl”> I do think a lot of people will be put off by having to learn xrandr, but not me. None of the people I've helped out have had 2 monitors (I doubt any of them know it's even possible, or would want a second monitor even if they did), so I've been able to avoid that problem so far. For my own personal purposes (I run Arch Linux, but it's much the same), I've set up a shell script that, based on which monitors it det…
Comment linking /tools/arandr/
on “Disgruntled Ubuntu Unity Users Flock in Droves to Linux Mint”
