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		hdra on July 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes I used to feel this way as well (except I'm a Windows user), until I read the `man` page for `xrandr`. Wrote a little script to automate everything, and I don't even remember the frustration I had before.

baudehlo on July 19, 2013 [–]

Except that's the very anti-definition of "just works".

w1ntermute on July 20, 2013 | [–]

It's also totally unnecessary in a DE, where XRandR will be wrapped in a GUI.

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