Automatic display configuration for i3 window manager, written in Go.
There isn't a pre-built set of binaries just yet, but as long as you have Go installed, you can build it yourself (you'll need to install dep).
$ go get -u -v github.com/seeruk/i3adc
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/seeruk/i3adc
$ dep ensure -v
$ go install -v ./cmd/...
Once you have it installed, if you've got your $GOPATH set up properly, and $GOPATH/bin on your
$PATH, you should just be able to use the i3adc command.
$ i3adc
Personally, I have a line in my .xinitrc to run i3adc when I log in. Use whatever works for you.
i3adc receives display events from i3's IPC. They don't usually come attached with any information.
Display events will occur when displays are plugged in or unplugged, and when display configuration
is changed (e.g. manually via xrandr, or maybe via some kind of graphical application like
ARandR).
When an event occurs, it can be handled in one of 3 different ways:
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If a new set of displays is detected (i.e. the combination of all connected displays is new); then all connected displays will be enabled, and set to their preferred mode. Their positions will also be reset. Positioning is based off of the order that the displays are sent from X, and each display will be to the right of the previous display (in one long row). This layout will then be saved.
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If the set of connected displays doesn't change, but some other settings change (e.g. modes, positions, rotation, reflection, so on...), then i3adc will update the saved configuration for that layout. This configuration is stored in the file
~/.i3adc/i3adc.db. -
If a display is plugged in, or unplugged, and the new set of displays has a configuration saved already; then i3adc will apply the same configuration that was used last time those displays were connected.
As an example, let's say you have a laptop, and 2 external monitors. You're running i3, and have only just plugged those displays in - so they're not active right now, or even enabled (i.e. they're on standby). If you started i3adc for the first time, all 3 displays would turn on, they would be set to their preferred mode, and positioned so that none of them overlap.
If you then decided you don't want to use the laptop display when you have your 2 external displays
connected, you could disable the laptop display by turning it off with xrandr. i3adc would notice
this change and update the saved layout. If you then disconnected both of your external displays,
your laptop display would be re-enabled. If you then plugged both of your external displays in again
the laptop display would turn off, and the two external displays would turn on and return to the
same configuration they had last time they were connected.
MIT