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On my main computer, I use xrandr and/or arandr with i3 to configure and save multiple different screen layouts and map them to various keyboard shortcuts.
I recently installed Fedora with Gnome on Wayland. I am totally at a loss when it comes to configuring screen layouts. Answers I find online seem overly complicated and involved.
Is there a direct analogue of xrandr for Wayland where I can change the orientation, for example, of a monitor?
This only works on wayland compositors that implement the
wlr-output-management-unstable-v1
e.g. sway (and probably others that use wlroots)
https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays
archlinux has an aur package for it https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wdisplays-git/
It appears ( https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?312000-Wayland-xrandr-equivalent and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features#XRandR_control_of_Wayland_outputs) that you won't find an equivalent for Wayland, at least in part because some of the Wayland devs think "You shouldn't want to do that" (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1666148#p1666148) and in part because Wayland has a different architecture and does things differently.
If you need custom resolutions this may help https://askubuntu.com/questions/973499/wayland-how-to-set-a-custom-resolution or it may not.
Transform option that lets you rotate the screen
Dec 30, 2020 at 16:31
I've been using this script and it is working well for me. https://gitlab.com/Oschowa/gnome-randr.
I have just set up aliases to call it with different settings, e.g. 4K@60Hz for watching Netflix etc, 1440p@120Hz for moonlight/gamestream remote gaming. For games I don't want native 4K, I want a high fps. LMAO at "You shouldn't want to do that".
