nwg-displays
Output management utility for sway and Hyprland. (by nwg-piotr)
swayinfo
Some goodies for use in Sway and i3 wm (by nwg-piotr)
| nwg-displays | swayinfo | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 4 | |
| 295 | 46 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | - |
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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.
nwg-displays
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-displays.
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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how to change layout for multiple monitors on wayland
you can use https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays if you want a graphical way.
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nwg-displays 0.3.6
method to read monitors' attributes on Hyprland made safer (see #22)
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nwg-displays 0.3.4
release notes
- Smarter monitor configuration
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nwg-displays 0.3.0 released, with Hyprland support
Please find this release beta. Thanks in advance for testing the AUR package. HOWTO you’ll find in the release notes: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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What do you guys use to manage monitors?
Kanshi is great! When I need to deviate from that for some reason I fire up wdisplays. It worries me that wdisplays is unmaintained, but it's still the best tool for that. nwg-displays is another upcoming tool, though I had some issues with fractional scaling when I tested it.
- Endeavour Sway and multi display
- How to connect a Sway session to a projector?
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What multi-monitor helper scripts are you using?
You could try https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays.
- on a multi-monitor setup, is there a shortcut to switch between the workplaces on the current monitor only?
swayinfo
Posts with mentions or reviews of swayinfo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.
- waybar: Trying to make taskbar module group by workspace
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Getting the "About Firefox" window to float
i use https://github.com/nwg-piotr/swayinfo to get the details of a window
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How to kill Microsoft Teams?
Is this the swayinfo you're using?
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A list of sway-specific apps & scripts
I use this one. Also contains the split orientation indication.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nwg-displays and swayinfo you can also consider the following projects:
nvx - Simple script running nvidia-settings based on your configured layout with anti tearing option
i3expo-ng - Exposè for i3 WM. Fork of https://gitlab.com/d.reis/i3expo to fix crashes and improve features/usability
swayblur - Basic i3ipc based script to blur an output's wallpaper when a client is present in it
dmenu-wayland - dmenu for wayland-compositors
wdisplays
wofi-scripts - Scripts for wofi, a wayland compatible program launcher
wl-mirror - a simple Wayland output mirror client
rofi-notion - Quickly create new Notion pages for your databases with rofi as GUI.
nwg-shell-config - nwg-shell configuration utility
dotfiles
wlay - Graphical output management for Wayland
gmenu