Re: Dynamic multimonitor setup question
- Reply: Mateusz Piotrowski : "Re: Dynamic multimonitor setup question"
- In reply to: Milan Obuch : "Re: Dynamic multimonitor setup question"
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:03:35 UTC
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:16:46AM +0100, Milan Obuch wrote: > I did some searching, googling and similar... a found two ports already > in FreeBSD's port collection, x11/arandr and x11/srandrd. The former is > just a graphical interface to xrandr, easy to understand and intuitive > (similar to the way Windows and MacOS X does multimonitor setup). The > latter should do what I am after, but it did not work for me :( > > Per 'man srandrd', if started with 'srandrd -v -n some_script', it > should output some debug data (-v), stay in foreground (-n) and invoke > some_script when monitor is being plugged or unplugged. It does not > work for me. Something happens just when I invoke 'xrandr' in another > terminal - I see some debug output, but the script is not invoked. > > Is anybody here using x11/srandrd? I can debug the script invocation, > but if the event is not detected without external intervention, it is > not really usable for me. And I have no experience with debugging the > issue in graphics stack... Asking the port maintainer could be a good start (CC'ed). ./danfe