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questionAsker OP , 6 months ago

Sadly, popup window name is same as for vscode itself. I will have a look on that script, that’s something to begin with. I use only one monitor at time, I don’t use “extended mode”. And what I really want - to transfer already opened applications to workspaces from different monitor: I have vscode opened on 4th workspace on laptop, after I plug in external monitor and setup xrandr for it, than I turn it off and want to continue working with vscode on 4th workspace on latop. Right now this is not possible from the box.

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago

lightdm on both machines, any tips (besides installing xfce settings) how to achieve this scaling?:) strange, but I will try sddm

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago

I also don’t mirror, just switch from laptop to external and vice versa. Strange because lighdtm doesn’t break anything for XFCE, quite interesting what is the reason

maybe I’m just one of very few that have external resolution lower than host

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago

I turn of internal display and enable external by script, I don’t use mirroring or extending

Here is xrandr output:

spoilerScreen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 173mm 1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.97 59.96 59.93 1680x1050 59.95 59.88 1400x1050 59.98 1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82 1280x1024 60.02 1400x900 59.96 59.88 1280x960 60.00 1440x810 60.00 59.97 1368x768 59.88 59.85 1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91 1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74 1024x768 60.04 60.00 960x720 60.00 928x696 60.05 896x672 60.01 1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82 960x600 59.93 60.00 960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82 800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25 840x525 60.01 59.88 864x486 59.92 59.57 700x525 59.98 800x450 59.95 59.82 640x512 60.02 700x450 59.96 59.88 640x480 60.00 59.94 720x405 59.51 58.99 684x384 59.88 59.85 640x400 59.88 59.98 640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32 512x384 60.00 512x288 60.00 59.92 480x270 59.63 59.82 400x300 60.32 56.34 432x243 59.92 59.57 320x240 60.05 360x202 59.51 59.13 320x180 59.84 59.32 DP-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1680x1050 59.95 + 1920x1080 60.00 50.00 59.94 1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94 1600x1000 60.01 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 1440x900 59.90 1280x960 60.00 1152x864 75.00 1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94 1152x720 59.97 1024x768 75.03 60.00 832x624 74.55 800x600 75.00 60.32 720x576 50.00 720x480 60.00 59.94 640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94 720x400 70.08 HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago

I use dummy script to toggle monitors (from archwiki)

<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">intern=eDP-1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">extern=DP-1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if xrandr | grep "$extern disconnected"; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    xrandr --output "$extern" --off --output "$intern" --auto
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    xrandr --output "$intern" --off --output "$extern" --auto
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fi
</span>

Hm, never used arandr but it’s similar to XFCE utlity on the first sight.

You setup profile where one display is enabled, another disabled, name him “external” and active in arandr every time connecting to external monitor, correct?

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

So I played around arandr and resolved initial issue…but got another one (as always). I added script to my bspwmrc file:

<span style="color:#323232;">if [[ $(xrandr -q | grep "DP-1 disconnected") ]];
</span><span style="color:#323232;">then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    xrandr --output eDP-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DP-1 --off --output HDMI-1 --off --output DP-2 --off --output HDMI-2 --off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bspc monitor eDP-1 -d 1 2 3 4 5
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    xrandr --output eDP-1 --off --output DP-1 --mode 1680x1050 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off --output DP-2 --off --output HDMI-2 --off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    bspc monitor DP-1 -d  1 2 3 4 5
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fi
</span>

So if i plug external monitor and reload bspwm (which also reloads polybar), it adds second pane to my polybar (1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5), but works.

Now smth interesting, when I unplug external monitor and then again reload bspwm, it switches to internal one but now cuts window for every application.

• Question 1: how to get rid of multiple workspaces on polybar when I toggle external monitor?
• Question 2: how to force bspwm respect resolution after switching resolutions?

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago

Sir, you are magician, addition to script did the trick!

Will definitely play with autorandr, because if I understood you correctly, it can automatically reload bspwm listening to certain events.

Right now I’m trying master (or understand, at least) QEMU, can you recommend me some combination with sane defaults (for ex mint + installer for herb) I can play on vm?

Thank you!

questionAsker OP , 8 months ago

Yes.

It’s easy way to learn things without fear to break something, can herbstluftwm use sxhkd?

Easily but why?