screenful
Awesome WM extension that allows automatically detect and configure connected/disconnected screens (by dluksza)
grobi
Automatically configure monitors/outputs for Xorg via RANDR (by fd0)
| screenful | grobi | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 160 | 124 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 5 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Lua | Go | |
| MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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screenful
Posts with mentions or reviews of screenful.
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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
grobi
Posts with mentions or reviews of grobi.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-02.
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dual monitor issue with both XORG and wayland; please help
grobi (link) (xorg)
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Differentiate two monitors of the same model
I don't know about whether desktop environments support this. I was going to say you may need to write a script for it, but I see https://github.com/fd0/grobi definitely supports it.
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Any good starting point for dynamic screen plugging?
I am using an xrandr helper (grobi) to set my screens up when connected. Problem is, my awesomewm config can only handle those changes on start. So I am just restarting awesomewm on screen change.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing screenful and grobi you can also consider the following projects:
autorandr - Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr
awesome-sharedtags - Share and move tags on multiple screens when using the awesome window manager.