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Achievement unlocked! You opened the game!
My system: please! It’s been 4 months! I have 73000 updates pending, please do an update!
Me: mmm, maybe later
I’m starting to think this meme might not be 100% historically accurate 🤔
Aww,
Who do you need me to kill?
Shitting on windows is the most Linux thing you can do
Display manager I thought the d stood for Desktop, but i’m thinking of de, i see i’ve been mixing up terms, i’ve also been under the incorrect understanding that window managers and desktop environments were mutually exclusive, e.g. a desktop environment like xfce would conflict with a window manager like i3
Those scripts look cleaner than mine, perhaps i should give it another go, i’m currently on ubuntu, but many of the packets being 15 years out of date is starting to get annoying, i miss aur with its [
packages ]-git
Quickswitch or automatic switch to a different profile, i often found myself enabling an external display and disabling the built-in one, then when packing down my laptop i forgot to manually configure the built in, meaning when i got home i had a laptop with a blank screen, Sometimes i was able to log in, open a terminal and enable the screen, other times i would have to reboot it. Something that could automatically enable the builtin if no external display is connected would’ve gone a long way for my usecase (my attempts at writing scripts for that never worked from what i recall, something got messed up when going to sleep)
Doesn’t xfce use a dm? What kind of display configuration does it give? A gui for manually configuring the layout or something more?
Based on my search when i looked into arandr earlier, and also my search now, it cannot :( looks like it’s just a graphical interface for xrand
But looks like there’s a different project, autorandr
, that looks promising, it won’t automatically run when a display is connected or disconnected, but that’s easy enough to do with an udev rule or something
Until now, i care a ton!
Oh wait, “Nobody who matters”
dang, nevermind
mister_monster seems to suggest it is though
Aren’t there any applications that can automatically manage displays? Many dms let you cycle through "only primary, “only secondary”, “mirrored” “side by side”, is that something that has to be built in to the wm/dm?
Is that something arandr can do? I couldn’t get it to do anything useful, so i ended up writing some scripts on top of xrandr to do it
I’ve only tried EndeavourOS with the i3 wm, it was better than setting it up myself from scratch, but it still left a lot to be desired (in particular; no way to deal with external displays as far as i could tell, except using xrandr
)
But i guess it’s more focused on the desktop manager options?
For the love of god OP don’t start your Linux journey with Arch
Don’t get me wrong, i use it and love it, but don’t use it!
I use arch btw
Always tip your local sewer monster
If your readyness lasts more than 4 hours, contact your doctor