bunsen-configs-wayland-plugin available for testing

johnraff · 2026-09-11 04:57:10

^ kanshi as an extension of wlr-randr I guess? I don't grasp it 100% but it looks to me like automation to choose a display when it's plugged in?

Maybe it wouldn't be too hard to make a CLI wrapper for wlr-randr that lets the user choose a config set from wlr-randr's list, offer to apply it (with a confirmation timeout in case the mode setting is broken) and write it to a file that is run from the user's autostart?

Of course a pretty GUI that did all that would be better. For a moment I thought nwg-displays might be it, but it doesn't support wlroots compositors.

(wdisplays ships no man page btw )

Last edited by johnraff (2026-09-11 05:01:03)

johnraff · 2026-09-11 05:13:26

There's also something called shikane but no deb package yet.

unklar · 2026-10-27 07:38:53

^Yesterday I downloaded labwc-menu-generator from here and installed it using apt. There were no errors; the application menu was available immediately after logging out and back in.

johnraff · 2026-10-27 08:07:18

^Thanks for checking that. So for BL Nitrogen we can just use labwc-menu-generator from the regular Debian repos.

Meanwhile, for BL Carbon it might be an easy package to backport to Trixie. I'll have a look.
@unklar what Debian version are you testing on?

unklar · 2026-10-27 15:29:23

inxi-system-info

inxi -Fzxr
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Last edited by unklar (2026-10-27 15:42:53)

hhh · 2026-10-27 18:33:59

johnraff wrote:

For a moment I thought nwg-displays might be it, but it doesn't support wlroots compositors.

Typo? It absolutely does...
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nwg-displays

johnraff · Yesterday 00:38:23

hhh wrote:

johnraff wrote:
For a moment I thought nwg-displays might be it, but it doesn't support wlroots compositors.
Typo?

What typo?

It absolutely does...
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nwg-displays

I had already studied both those pages before making my claim that wlroots compositors weren't supported. Some nwg-displays github issues too as I recall.

nwg-displays-github wrote:

The program is expected to:
support sway, Hyprland, Niri and mangowm only.

nwg-displays-debian wrote:

- support sway and Hyprland only.

and: https://hypr.land/news/independentHyprland/

hyprland-news wrote:

Hyprland is no longer a wlroots-based Wayland compositor

So it looks to me like no wlroots support.

hhh · Yesterday 09:03:58

Huh, mangowm says it's wlroots right on its homepage...
https://mangowm.github.io/

I confess to being very confused as to what wlroots means. It's modules (or libraries) written in C that save time when building a compositor? So the compositor itself has to be written in C as well? Sway is written in C, hyrpland is now rust, niri is rust as well, and labwc is written in C but is wlroots based? Don't answer, I'm just saying it's confusing to the end user.

johnraff · Today 02:27:50

johnraff wrote:

For a moment I thought nwg-displays might be it, but it doesn't support wlroots compositors.

hhh wrote:

mangowm says it's wlroots right on its homepage

So it does! So you win that one.

But nwg-displays looks quite firm in its list of supported compositors. I think I tested it with labwc and found it didn't work. I still have it installed so I'll log into a Wayland session and check it one more time.

PS:

$ nwg-displays
Neither sway nor Hyprland detected, terminating

So it's quite picky about which compositor is trying to run it. Maybe the Forky version is more forgiving.

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