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autorandr
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Tool for launching apps when monitor powers on?
could use the postswitch hook provided by autorandr, though this would require letting autorandr manage your display layout as well: https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr
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Multiple screens with different resolutions?
autorandr worked great for me for hot plugging when I would frequently use my laptop with two external monitors.
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update xrandr automatically when I unplug a monitor
Autorandr does run in the background as it is a daemon. For systemd integration see https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr/blob/master/contrib/systemd/autorandr.service
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Resolve multi-display oddities
I use autorandr (https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr) to load display configurations with a hotkey. I'm 100% sure there is a "better" way of doing so over my setup.
- Linux + Nvidia
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Tumbleweed KDE multiple monitor trouble - repeatedly resets to overlapped extended.
If your using X11, try autorandr. It's a bit clunky for me with the windows moving around after waking up but they eventually find where they're supposed to be... mostly.
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Is it possible to span a desktop in multiple monitors?
I would suggest taking a look at something like autorandr to help dynamically adjust your settings when you connect/disconnect.
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How to handle different monitor setups when using a tiling WM?
There's also autorandr that allows you to save monitor setups and automatically switch between them as you connect/disconnect displays
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dual monitor issue with both XORG and wayland; please help
autorandr (link) (xorg)
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Permanent Xrandr settings
No, but you can save settings to script and run on login. Arandr does it with GUI. Autorandr automates and manages multiple setups.
i3
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Show HN: Chrome Reaper
While I believe Memory Saver was a great improvement, it only works if the tab is hidden or the window minimized. I recently learned the required state is not triggered if the tab is open but on another virtual desktop. At least this is the case with many of not all Linux window managers. Some of the many discussion threads on the topic:
https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4353
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Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
> This is very true, and unfortunately there are very few people working on linux accessibility (including not me! I am part of the problem!).
Accessibility work itself ironically suffers from an accessibility problem. I brought up i3wm above, the issue for that is pretty illuminating: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/3393
It's not that the devs are saying "this doesn't matter", the devs behind one of the most popular tiling window managers in the X11 ecosystem are saying, "this does matter, but we don't know how to fix it. We don't know what changes we'd need to make to get Orca working."
It's a really fundamental breakdown that's kind of a tragedy because I honestly believe that if accessibility communities were more heavily baked into testing and development in Linux and if this wasn't treated like two separate worlds, it would be better for everyone -- fixing accessibility concerns very often improves interfaces across the board and makes them more powerful.
But... how do you bridge that gap? I don't really know, I tried looking into Orca to see what would need to happen here and bounced off of it pretty hard, it's not a very approachable tech stack and there aren't tutorials or getting started guides. And on the other side of the issue I can preach about needing accessibility input during interface design, but I'm not in a position to give specific advice because I don't use screenreaders or alternate control schemes and I don't know what the biggest problems are.
The people who need to be involved in that process can't get involved because there's a tech barrier in place even for technically inclined people, and because the underlying software locks them out from the start. i3wm isn't ever going to get someone who's intimately familiar with Orca to jump into the conversation because the people who need to use Orca can't use i3wm. So that leaves the people who can address that tech barrier, but they don't know what to do or how to approach the problem because of the lack of involvement and because the communities are isolated from each other. So it's a chicken-and-egg problem and I don't know how to solve it.
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"We understand" ;)
This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.
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what machines have you used for development, and what do you prefer?
I use MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2014) with Manjaro as OS using i3 as a window manager. It isn't perfect, but I'm thrilled with it. I have been a Mac OS user for the last 15 years and wouldn't change what I have now for a Mac OS because I don't need more than what I'm using for development.
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The future of /r/i3wm
Even though, we have moved the official i3 support channel to GitHub discussions, i3's biggest community is still on reddit and if things continue like that there is going to be a lot of helpful content on an increasingly closed platform.
- while in i3wm, krita dockers move downwards a bit each time they're spawned - how do I fix this?
- i3wm-like window switching for Windows
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egui_overlay - A transparent Overlay window where you can only click the "egui parts"
for example, take i3. https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4478
- How to start on a Linux desktop environment?
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Machine for pentesting and general use?
For daily usage I really like kubuntu with i3wm, but it takes some configuration and getting used to the shortcuts, but it's well worth it
What are some alternatives?
i3-autodisplay - i3wm multiple monitors auto configuration
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
grobi - Automatically configure monitors/outputs for Xorg via RANDR
awesome - awesome window manager
awesome-sharedtags - Share and move tags on multiple screens when using the awesome window manager.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
screenful - Awesome WM extension that allows automatically detect and configure connected/disconnected screens
xmonad - The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager
python-umonitor - Manage monitor configuration automatically.
tmux - tmux source code