awesome-sharedtags
Share and move tags on multiple screens when using the awesome window manager. (by Drauthius)
screenful
Awesome WM extension that allows automatically detect and configure connected/disconnected screens (by dluksza)
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3 months ago | almost 5 years ago | |
Lua | Lua | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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awesome-sharedtags
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-sharedtags.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.
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Auto-resizing on display aspect ratio change (laptop docking from 3:2 to 16:9)
If you use any tiling layout, they will adjust to a screen size change. However some additional actions should be taken to move your tag structure from one screen to another. I use shared tags to move my tags.
- XMonad multi-monitor behaviour
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How to Keep Off-Screen Window Mapped
Make Xorg believe that window is visible. For example you can add a fake screen which will show all offscreen windows or at least ones you'd like to capture. On this way you'll face another problem: you can't show the same window twice. Moreover the window may be tagged with tags only on the same screen. It is possible to partially overcome these limitations (see sharedtags for example).
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Laptop lid closed and using an external monitor
After you figure out your power and screens configuration you'll need to move the tags to other screen once their screen disappeared. It's already implemented in sharedtags module. Even if you're going to implement it yourself you can use the module as a reference.
- One global taglist for multiple screens
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Charitable/Sharedtags spawning clients with rules freezes awesome
I have an issue with using charitable / sharedtags and rules, The issue is that when I spawn an application/client that has rules, while the workspace/tag it is supposed to spawn on is visible on another screen but not focused, awesome freezes/crashes.
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Sharing spaces across two monitors
You can't show the same window on the both screens simultaneously (that's an Xorg limitation). Look at shared tags. This module allows you to move a tag with all clients between screens.
- How do I make tags unique for each screen? ex. Tag "1" should only be present on screen "1"
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Display all tags regardless the screen
JFYI did you try https://github.com/Drauthius/awesome-sharedtags?
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Awesome WM for Wayland?
You can have a look at the shared tags modules that implement a way to share tags across multiple screen : https://github.com/Drauthius/awesome-sharedtags
screenful
Posts with mentions or reviews of screenful.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-10.
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Any good starting point for dynamic screen plugging?
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome-sharedtags and screenful you can also consider the following projects:
autorandr - Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr
awesome - awesome window manager
grobi - Automatically configure monitors/outputs for Xorg via RANDR
the-glorious-dotfiles - A glorified personal dot files
charitable - Shared tags for multi-monitor system
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.