autorandr VS screenful

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

autorandr worked great for me for hot plugging when I would frequently use my laptop with two external monitors.

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

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.

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.

I would suggest taking a look at something like autorandr to help dynamically adjust your settings when you connect/disconnect.

There's also autorandr that allows you to save monitor setups and automatically switch between them as you connect/disconnect displays

autorandr (link) (xorg)

No, but you can save settings to script and run on login. Arandr does it with GUI. Autorandr automates and manages multiple setups.

You can either: - use awesome signals: screen.connect_signal("property::geometry", yourfunc) screen.connect_signal("list", yourfunc) ( https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/classes/screen.html#screen.list, https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/classes/screen.html#screen.geometry ) and poke s.outputs from function yourfunc(s) (along with parsing io.popen("xrandr -q --current") if needed), but that will only catch "connected & active" displays (i.e. not in xrandr --output XXX --off* state) - parse output (also with lua) of *xev -root -event randr -1 (that should catch everything) - use something along the lines of udev hook + /sys parsing if you use drm enabled driver (something along the lines of https://github.com/dluksza/screenful ) - use hybrid of above