mate-display-properties-install-systemwide(1)

mate-display-properties-install-systemwide1

Customize mate display behavor

Usage

mate-display-properties-install-systemwide <SOURCE_FILE> <DEST_NAME>

Overview

This executable is part of the package 'mate-control-center': The MATE Control Center.

This command line tool installs a RANDR profile for multi-monitor setups into a systemwide location. The resulting profile will get used when the RANDR plug-in gets run in mate-settings-daemon.

<SOURCE_FILE>

a full pathname, typically /home/username/.config/monitors.xml

<DEST_NAME>

relative name for the installed file. This will get put in the systemwide directory for RANDR configurations, so the result will typically be /etc/mate-settings-daemon/xrandr/DEST_NAME

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Authors

This manual page was writtenby Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From mate-control-center 1.28.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.