#21 2025-08-26 19:50:57

greenjeans

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Re: Little nitpicky stuff I have noticed and would like to point out.

Holy walls of text Batman! Perhaps the entirety of that post didn't need to be quoted?

GalacticStone

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Re: Little nitpicky stuff I have noticed and would like to point out.

I found Greg Woolledge's BASH FAQ extremely useful when I started - and still have to go back and check things out now and then:
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

The Bash Hacker's Wiki used to be pretty good too, but suddenly went offline. Now a kind person has resurrected it here:
https://bash-hackers.gabe565.com/

Thanks for the heads up on these. I'm gonna check them out.

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Re: Little nitpicky stuff I have noticed and would like to point out.

Holy walls of text Batman! Perhaps the entirety of that post didn't need to be quoted?

Classic.  But yeah, the quote function would have helped there....@manyroads, hope you don't mind I've edited your post to save our ageing scroll wheel fingers

It didn't make much difference....

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GalacticStone

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Re: Little nitpicky stuff I have noticed and would like to point out.

Ok, I am doing my homework and I am going to tackle the display.

First, a shout out and kudos to the folks who run the Arch wiki. A lot of web searches for these kinds of things lead back to that wiki.

One thing I am still not clear on is : is hot-swapping devices detected on the Xrandr end of things, or was this something Gnome was doing?

As near as I can tell, I cannot find any reference to hot-swapping cables/devices in the Xrandr docs.

My first thoughts were something along these lines :

run a background script to query the current display state from Xrandr and when it detects a change, it will automatically switch the output to that display. I guess this would run in a loop? If so, putting in a delay (1s or more?) to keep the script efficient.

Apparently, Xrandr stores the display names and states and I can query those. My confusion is - will this state change automatically if a device is hotplugged, or does this state have to be manually changed (in Xrandr) via the user? I can't seem to find a straight answer on that.

Last edited by GalacticStone (2025-08-28 22:50:19)

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Re: Little nitpicky stuff I have noticed and would like to point out.

Holy walls of text Batman! Perhaps the entirety of that post didn't need to be quoted?

https://i.postimg.cc/Hrm6Fsh1/image.png

Classic.  But yeah, the quote function would have helped there....@manyroads, hope you don't mind I've edited your post to save our ageing scroll wheel fingers

It didn't make much difference....

Hope you don't mind. I edited your edit to put the config file in a code block instead of a quote block.

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