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kscreen-doctor — Change and manipulate the screen setup. More information: <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libkscreen>

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Problem

How to use the kscreen-doctor command: Change and manipulate the screen setup. More information: <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libkscreen>.

Solution

kscreen-doctor — Change and manipulate the screen setup. More information: <https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libkscreen>.

Show display output information:

kscreen-doctor {{[-o|--outputs]}}

Set the rotation of a display output with an ID of 1 to the right:

kscreen-doctor output.1.rotation.right

Set the scale of a display output with an ID of HDMI-2 to 2 (200%):

kscreen-doctor output.HDMI-2.scale.2

Enable a specific HDMI display:

kscreen-doctor output.{{HDMI-A-1}}.enable

Disable a specific DisplayPort display:

kscreen-doctor output.{{DP-2}}.disable

Set a display as primary display:

kscreen-doctor output.{{HDMI-A-1}}.primary

Code Snippets

Show display output information

kscreen-doctor {{[-o|--outputs]}}

Set the rotation of a display output with an ID of 1 to the right

kscreen-doctor output.1.rotation.right

Set the scale of a display output with an ID of `HDMI-2` to 2 (200%)

kscreen-doctor output.HDMI-2.scale.2

Enable a specific HDMI display

kscreen-doctor output.{{HDMI-A-1}}.enable

Disable a specific DisplayPort display

kscreen-doctor output.{{DP-2}}.disable

Context

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