xplugd
Monitor, keyboard, and mouse plug/unplug helper for X (by troglobit)
xfocusnotify
X11-tool which exits when a window is focused and prints the respective window-id. (by astier)
| xplugd | xfocusnotify | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 64 | 9 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.7 | 1.7 | |
| almost 2 years ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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xplugd
Posts with mentions or reviews of xplugd.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.
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Detect the number of monitors when xrandr doesn't detect when the monitor is off
I'm not sure about turning on or off, but there is a very nice project, https://github.com/troglobit/xplugd, that keeps a daemon running and reacting to when a display is connected or disconnected, or a keyboard or a mouse, and then runs a shell script which you can then run xrandr commands, for example. It won't be triggered on turning a monitor on or off, but it will work on disconnecting or connecting. It is also does not depend on your window manager, doesn't matter if it is Qtile or something else. It is a nice project, I use and really like it, but I'm not sure it is 100% what you want here. ):
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Swap keys globally for all keyboards
Have a look at xplugd, or xinputd that allow you to run commands on X server events.
xfocusnotify
Posts with mentions or reviews of xfocusnotify.
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- xfocusnotify: X11-tool meant for scripting which exits when a window is focused and prints the respective window-id
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xfocusnotify: X11-tool which exits when a window is focused and prints the respective window-id
xfocusnotify is meant for scripting and x11-window-management where for some reason you need to know when a new window gets focused and you want to do something with it. It's highly performant because it's written in C and reaches barely 30 lines of code.
xfocusnotify is a tiny X11-tool (only 30 lines of C-code) which exits when a window is focused and prints the respective window-id. It's EWMH-compliant and uses _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW to determine the focused window.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xplugd and xfocusnotify you can also consider the following projects:
mos - A hobby operating system developed from scratch
dragon - Drag and drop source/target for X
janus-key - Low-level GNU/Linux dual function key remapper (X and Wayland)
recordmydesktop - Fork of recordMyDesktop X Window System desktop recording abandonware, much bug fixing and general cleanups/rewriting has been done.
xinputd - Simple Xorg input watching daemon which executes command on attach or detach of input devices
clipnotify - Notify on new X clipboard events
wdisplays - Mirror of cyclopsian/wdisplays
lucky - Lua-configured input daemon for X
berry - :strawberry: A healthy, byte-sized window manager