The intention is to augment the existing functionality of autorandr in various ways without impacting that project itself.
I am delighted to be using autorandr in my work environments (my desk, various meeting rooms, mobile, etc.).
However, I prefer each of my three displays having a separate panel with its own Window List applet, but that also means that when I'm on the go with my laptop, I'll have a stack of three panels on a single display, each with its own redundant Window List. That's just silly. Ideally, the layouts should adjust seamlessly -- and this project aims to do just that.
When you use autorandr together with noughty autorandr, saving a profile doesn't just save the display configuration -- it also saves the configuration of desktop elements such as panels, panel applets with their position and configuration, even the background wallpaper and keyboard shortcuts. Oh, and the default printer, which is probably different between work and the home office.
- This is an add-on for
autorandrwhich therefore needs to be installed beforehand. - Also,
noughty-autorandrassumes thatbash,dconf,cups, andlibnotifyare installed.
Navigate to where you would like this add-on installed. It is going to create its own noughty-autorandr subdirectory. Then, run the command git clone https://github.com/Noughtnaut/noughty-autorandr.git.
You can do this two ways:
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If you're not doing anything else with
autorandrhook scripts, you can create simply symbolic links for the following files and place them within~/.config/autorandr/, alongside any existing profiles you may have.- the file
preswitch - the file
postswitch - the file
postsave - the directory
noughty(don't worry,autorandrwon't see "noughty" as a possible profile)
- the file
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If you have other things going on in those hook scripts, it's better to create the links with different names, and then have the hook scripts call those. This way, updating
noughty autorandrwon't overwrite any of your own hook script commands.
After installation, just use autorandr as you usually do -- that's all there is to it!
One thing, though: when you make changes to something that's stored in dconf (such as adding a keyboard shortcut), you should update the current profile
From time to time you may want to make changes to your display setup (or create new ones), and in those cases noughty-autorandr will be called upon to do its additional tasks.
There is as of yet no other means of adjusting the workings than editing the scripts within the noughty directory. This is not ideal, this is version 0.1. :-Þ
The roadmap describes what is being considered for the future. Also, the change log might show things that are further along, albeit still unreleased.
This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (TL;DR).
This project would be nothing without autorandr, so a sincere thank you goes out to @wertarbyte, @phillipberndt, and the over 50 other contributors to that project.