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But that is where you hit impedance mismatch. Some things that are easy to represent in a GUI (because they are graphical tasks) cannot be easily represented in

But that is where you hit impedance mismatch. Some things that are easy to represent in a GUI (because they are graphical tasks) cannot be easily represented in a command line tool. XRandr is probably the worst example of a scriptable tool because you have to manually type in the coordinates and screen sizes which is at odds with how you would configure a graphical screen. If you want to set them based on some logic or calculations, you are better off reaching for a python script or something that is actually pleasant to write code in, and then use that to invoke the real API, not command line tools.

pmontra 4y ago
I didn't touch xrandr much in my life (I'm not the OP) and I don't know which APIs are available so I don't know if they are pleasant or not, but wouldn't I write coordinates and screen sizes in Python too? Anyway, xrandr is already there and Google and stackoverflow are full of examples. I'm not surprised that people would invest half an hour copy pasting code from there instead of identifying and learning the underlying API. I don't see why that should be a problem.