Different configs depending on number of screens

answered Jan 22 '13

Michael
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In the future, please ask precisely one question per post.

Is it possible to have different config options apply depending on the number of screens?

By using an external script/program to generate your config file: sure. It might help if you could edit your question and provide an example.

Also, I'm wishing to change which workspace outputs on which screen based upon the number of screens, but I don't know the X output names beforehand. Is there some way to say "screen 1" instead of something like workspace 1 output LVDS1?

No, since screens are not ordered deterministically, this method has been abandoned when i3 started to support RandR. Again, a script might help here.

answered Jan 22 '13

Hailiang
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X output names can be shown with xrandr.

You can say "workspace 1 output left" and "workspace 2 output right".