dp-change everytime i restart so i try to bind workstations 1,2,3 to monitor 1 not working about hyprland-wiki

[skogler]

I have the same kind of problem. The issue is that you cannot assign a custom ID or so by matching a monitor description. If that were possible you could use the assigned ID in other rules. Maybe that would be a nice feature request?

My workaround for this is to run this bash script manually:

# puts workspaces on alternating monitors
# if you have two monitors:
#  m1: 1 3 5 7 9
#  m2: 2 4 6 8 10
# if you have three:
#  m1: 1 4 7 10
#  m2: 2 5 8
#  m3: 3 6 9
arrange_workspaces() {
    mapfile -t monitors < <( hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r '.[].name' )
    for ((ws = 1; ws <= 10; ws++)); do
        monitor="${monitors[(ws - 1) % ${#monitors[@]}]}"
        hyprctl dispatch moveworkspacetomonitor "${ws}" "${monitor}" > /dev/null
        hyprctl keyword workspace "${ws},monitor:${monitor}" > /dev/null
    done
}

Not really convenient, but does what I want.

[MightyPlaza]

you can now use monitor:desc: inside workspace rules on v0.27
should also be added in the wiki