[xmonad] Managing Multiple Displays

[Dominik Schrempf]

Not sure if this is out of place, but do you know grobi? It works great for me!

Dominik

GitHub - fd0/grobi: Automatically configure monitors/outputs for Xorg via RANDR – https://github.com/fd0/grobi

On July 20, 2021 2:23:21 PM GMT+02:00, Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
>Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions.  There are definitely many
>good options available that I was not aware of.
>
>I've tried a few and autorandr seems like a good addition into my
>already
>(more or less) working workflow.  It solves the specific problem that
>I've
>described.  In the future, I might try and replace my custom script
>with a
>different end-to-end solution.
>
>
>
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 2:22 PM Tomas Janousek <tomi at nomi.cz> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 05:14:54PM +0300, Eyal Erez wrote:
>>
>> I often use multiple displays. Here are some configurations that I've
>used
>> {.quotelead}>with my laptop:
>>
>> […]
>> I was wondering how others deal with this challenge? Are there other,
>more
>> well-built tools, than the script I have to do this more robustly and
>> automatically?
>>
>> There are many ways to do this. I'll describe my setup and then point
>to
>> some alternatives.
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> I have a script <https://work.lisk.in/2020/10/11/xrandr-ux.html> that
>> extends xrandr command-line usage so that I can just write a generic
>> vertical layout like so:
>>
>>  xrandr-smart --output 'eDP-*' --auto \
>>               --output '!(eDP-*)' --auto --above 'eDP-*'
>>
>> Then I have another script
>> <https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/layout-auto> that
>lets
>> me save layouts for specific configurations
>> <https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/tree/home/bin/.xlayout> of
>connected
>> monitors. This one is invoked automatically whenever an output is
>> connected/disconnected, using
>>
>https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib-0.16.999/XMonad-Hooks-Rescreen.html#v:addRandrChangeHook
>> .
>> I can also invoke it manually via a keybinding to force a laptop-only
>> layout, or to force an automatic multi-head layout in an unknown
>setup. If
>> I need something extra (like external monitor only for games), I just
>> invoke a "layout-extonly" script via rofi
>> <https://github.com/davatorium/rofi> (I only need to type "ex" for it
>to
>> know what I mean).
>>
>> (Re)starting xmobars and trayers is handled by
>>
>https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib-0.16.999/XMonad-Hooks-StatusBar.html#v:dynamicSBs,
>> as mentioned by Yecine earlier.
>>
>> In my setup, the automatic switching doesn't happen when the screen
>is
>> locked, and neither do the keybindings work, but that is just my
>paranoia
>> (and yeah, I should just use
>> https://packages.debian.org/experimental/cryptsetup-suspend instead
>:-)).
>> It's totally possible to let X.H.Rescreen invoke the script even if
>locked,
>> and xsecurelock <https://github.com/google/xsecurelock> allows
>> configuration of keybindings when the screen is locked.
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Now for the alternatives:
>>
>> Others have mentioned autorandr. That is probably what most
>minimalist
>> window manager users use. Autorandr can be invoked on output
>(dis)connect,
>> lid open/close and suspend/resume in various ways:
>>
>>    -
>>   
>https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib-0.16.999/XMonad-Hooks-Rescreen.html#v:addRandrChangeHook
>>    - https://github.com/jceb/srandrd
>>    -
>>   
>https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr/blob/master/contrib/autorandr_launcher/autorandr_launcher.c
>>    -
>>   
>https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr/blob/master/contrib/listen_lid.sh
>>    -
>>   
>https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr/blob/master/contrib/pm-utils/40autorandr
>>
>> Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/xrandr for other tools and
>tips.
>> --
>> Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://work.lisk.in/
>>
>
>
>-- 
>*Eyal Erez <**oneself at gmail.com* <oneself at gmail.com>*>*
>
>There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who
>don't.
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