wdisplays
Mirror of cyclopsian/wdisplays (by artizirk)
wdisplays
GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors (by cyclopsian)

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2.2 | 1.1 | |
9 months ago | over 4 years ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wdisplays
Posts with mentions or reviews of wdisplays.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-15.
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What do you guys use to manage monitors?
For an arandr replacement, https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide recommends wdisplays.
- How to connect a Sway session to a projector?
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How to use projector on sway?
But, Sway also supports a Wayland protocol which allows other applications to configure the displays instead. You can read it here if you want the gritty details. My preferred application to configure Sway's outputs is wdisplays.
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Tiling WM where adding/removing external monitors is easy.
Sway with wdisplays?
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Are there Wayland equivalents of xrandr and xinput?
You could have a look at wdisplays. Uses wlroots.
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Three monitor configuration
I run 3 monitors in a similar config manually configured with negative x values for the left most monitor, it worked ok, but now I use https://github.com/artizirk/wdisplays for an easy life
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(WIP) Working on a GUI for configuring displays
wdisplays comes to mind.
- Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
- Arch users belike
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Setting resolution on Wayland
Try wdisplays.
wdisplays
Posts with mentions or reviews of wdisplays.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-11.
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X is Boomer
arandr replacement: wdisplays
- Plasma 5.21 is out and this time we have improved its looks and usability: there's a new wallpaper, an easier-to-use application launcher, a new system monitor, and much more.
- Can sway only use the primary display by default?
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Xrandr equivalent on wayland?
Output/display configuration tool: kanshi, wdisplays, wlr-randr
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Is there a Wayland equivalent of xrandr?
... because I like quick, and lazy: https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wdisplays and wdisplays you can also consider the following projects:
wl-gammactl
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
wl-mirror - a simple Wayland output mirror client
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
linux-tkg - linux-tkg custom kernels
xplugd - Monitor, keyboard, and mouse plug/unplug helper for X
japokwm - A wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
nwg-displays - Output management utility for sway and Hyprland.
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
stlwrt - A library which emulates many versions of GTK and visually resembles GTK+ 2

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