output name handling

asked 2013-07-22 03:53:21 +0000

Anonymous

Hi,

now I've set up my i3 and everthing works great (thanks to Michael and the team btw.) I realized, my laptop changed addresses this morning:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3286 x 1353, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS2 connected 1366x768+0+585 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
   1366x768       60.1*+
   1360x768       59.8     60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   640x480        59.9  
VGA2 connected 1920x1200+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
   1920x1200      60.0*+
   1600x1200      60.0  
   1680x1050      60.0  
   1600x1000      60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0  
   1440x900       59.9  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1280x720       60.0  
   1024x768       75.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        75.0     60.3  
   640x480        75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

LVDS1 is now LVDS2 and VGA1 is now VGA2. I have no idea why this happened, but all my rules for i3bar and xrandr handling are now wrong.

In case of i3bar I just added another output line. For xrandr I wrote a little script handling this case. I wonder if others observed this situation. Maybe it is NVidia Optimus related, I don't know.

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answered 2013-07-27 15:34:24 +0000

Michael
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This seems to be related to the order in which the driver modules are loaded on your computer. Given that you did not actually ask a question, this answer is somewhat unhelpful, but under these circumstances I cannot do better :).

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It helps somewhat. Actually I don't care any more, I made a little script dealing with either case. I'll post it as an answer in case anybody is interested.

grml ( 2013-07-29 09:07:42 +0000 )edit

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answered 2013-07-29 09:19:16 +0000

grml
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updated 2013-07-29 09:23:10 +0000

Here is my bash only solution in $HOME/bin/display:

#!/bin/bash

PROG=${0##*/}

usage() {
    echo $"Usage: $PROG [laptop|monitor|both]"
    echo $"Switch to the laptop, the external monitor (VGA) or both displays."
    echo
    echo $"If no option is given, the name of the actual output is returned."
}

[[ "$1" == "-h" ]] && usage && exit

output () {
    i3-msg -t get_workspaces | JSON.sh -b | \
    awk '/focused/ {focused = $2} /output/ {if (focused == "true") print $2}' | \
    sed 's/"//g'
}

N=$(output | sed 's/[A-Z]*//g')
LVDS="LVDS$N"
VGA="VGA$N"

case "$1" in
    laptop)
        xrandr --output $LVDS --auto --primary --output $VGA --off
        ;;
    monitor)
        xrandr --output $LVDS --off --output $VGA --auto --primary
        ;;
    both)
        xrandr --output $LVDS --auto --primary --pos 0x590 --output $VGA --auto --pos 1366x0
        ;;
    *)
        echo $(output)
        ;;
esac

I also added some nice key bindings to my config:

# display switching
bindsym $mod+F8 exec display laptop
bindsym $mod+Shift+F8 exec display monitor
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+F8 exec display both

# move the whole workspace to another output
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Left move workspace to output left
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Right move workspace to output right

Now I just have to convince my display manager (lightdm on Ubuntu) not to mess up my displays on boot. If anybody has an idea where to start...

Regards,

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