kousu / screenlayout

A small GUI helper for dealing with xrandr choices

ScreenLayout

A tiny script to make handling screenlayouts with non-desktop-environment window managers, such as i3 and xmonad, better.

Make sure you have zenity and xrandr installed, then make a directory in your homedir called .screenlayout, and for each desired screen arrangement, put one scripts in there which uses xrandr to make it so.

This program prompts you to choose a layout, and then runs it.

Tips

The quickest way to make this directory and these scripts is an almost as tiny python GUI called arandr.

If you find yourself switching configurations between different physical workspaces often, add this to your .xinitrc, e.g.

xterm &
~/.local/bin/screenlayout &
exec i3

Bugs

Does not do the 15s "set it back!" deadman's timer that Windows, Gnome, and KDE do on screen switching. ..though zenity could probably be forced into doing that too.

This is worth factoring into a subroutine which takes a directory of scripts and asks you to choose one.