| kanshi | wdisplays | |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 3 | |
| 553 | 24 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.9 | 0.7 | |
| about 3 years ago | over 3 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
kanshi
Posts with mentions or reviews of kanshi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-12.
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Sway external display
Without digging into you problem, i just let you know one options/tool as an addition: https://github.com/emersion/kanshi
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Starting kanshi from sway
This works, but after a reload of the config the configuration is gone. Then I found this discussion and changed the line to:
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Arch users belike
Kanshi is not exactly what you're looking for but i stumbled across this when I was writing the dynamic display configuration page.
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Terminal font size on hidpi + normal display
You should use different scale factors on each monitor. You can do it in your sway configuration, or use something like kanshi that automatically applies different settings based on what is connected.
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Inaccessible workspaces
If this fixes your problem you'll want to apply this fix: Disable Laptop screen upon closing screen. or you can use something like Automatic display profile switcher when you connect your external display to switch it to while also disabling your laptop screen.
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How to toggle transparency and gaps? Preserve display configuration?
I also heard of kanshi for monitor configuration, but I believe there's an open bug where sway reload breaks kanshi config... which kind of defeats the purpose.
- Single Background / Multiple Monitors
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Script for docked mode
kanshi should be able to do it.
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Organising workspaces on multiple monitors
Assuming your connected monitors may change - you plug another one in and then you want to move workspaces the new output: kanshi can help you with that. You can tell kanshi to execute commands when it matches a profile.
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Sway not picking the highest refresh rate available
For this you can use kanshi.
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 2023-02-02.
- Endeavour Sway and multi display
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Hi so i need some help
There is also https://github.com/luispabon/wdisplays
- X.Org Server Lands X Input 2.4 Touchpad Gestures
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kanshi and wdisplays you can also consider the following projects:
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
nwg-displays - Output management utility for sway and Hyprland.
wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
velox - velox window manager
wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
superpaper - A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager.
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland