How to change display's position from command line?

Question

How can I use the command prompt to do get the setup shown below?

Edit: I need the secondary display to be located to the left and half-way to the top of the primary display, as shown above.

The output of xrandr is:

        Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1567, maximum 32767 x 32767
    eDP1 connected primary 1920x1080+1280+487 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 345mm x 194mm
       1920x1080      60.0*+   59.9  
       1680x1050      60.0     59.9  
       1600x1024      60.2  
       1400x1050      60.0  
       1280x1024      60.0  
       1440x900       59.9  
       1280x960       60.0  
       1360x768       59.8     60.0  
       1152x864       60.0  
       1024x768       60.0  
       800x600        60.3     56.2  
       640x480        59.9  
    VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    HDMI2 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
       1280x1024      60.0*+   75.0  
       1920x1080      60.0     59.9  
       1152x864       75.0  
       1280x720       60.0     59.9  
       1024x768       75.1     60.0  
       800x600        75.0     60.3  
       640x480        75.0     60.0     59.9  
       720x400        70.1  
    VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Solution

Try this:

xrandr --output eDPI1 --mode 1024x768 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI2 --mode 1366x768 --pos 1024x384 --rotate normal

Comments

[Pilot6]

You can do it by "xrandr" command. "man xrandr" has help.

[terdon]

Please edit your question and add the output of xrandr. Also, please explain what you need. Are you expecting one screen to be above the other? By how much? Do you just need one screen to be on the right of the other one?

[Jacob Vlijm]

possible duplicate of Output of xrandr shows 1024x768+1366+0; what does it mean and can I change it?

[Jacob Vlijm]

Please take a look at the dupe I marked your question as. Strictly taken I am doubting if it is a literal dupe, however, the answer I would post would be a 100% copy. If you don't agree, please leave a comment and I'll remove the dupe mark.

[Jacob Vlijm]

That's a lot more than strictly needed. Simply xrandr --output eDPI1 --pos <x>x<y> would do :)

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

<.< shhh, I copied settings from lxrandr, I've no idea what I am doing

[Jacob Vlijm]

haha, You are the best :)

[Jacob Vlijm]

On my turn, I simply copied eDPI1 from your answer, while op does not have a screen like that :)

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

wait what ? OP posted output of xrandr which reports eDPI1 there. Did I miss something ?

[Jacob Vlijm]

Oh dear, I should learn to read some day.

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

@JacobVlijm we need more coffee XD

[Eduardo]

I actually modified your script into xrandr --output HDMI2 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1280x512 --rotate normal. Thanks a lot!

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

Eduardo, that works :) youre very welcome

[Mark Jeronimus]

I used --size instead of --mode

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

@MarkJeronimus Yep, that's a good one too. Just keep in mind, --size is actually something different than --mode. The --size option sets the size of the "virtual" or "software" screen. For single monitor setup ( like a laptop for example ) that's going to behave the same, but on dual monitor setups that it's obviously different.

[Mark Jeronimus]

I needed it to solve this problem, but then the displays were not relatively aligned anymore