kanshi

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kanshi allows you to define output profiles that are automatically enabled and disabled on hotplug. For instance, this can be used to turn a laptop's internal screen off when docked.

This is a Wayland equivalent for tools like autorandr. kanshi can be used on Wayland compositors supporting the wlr-output-management protocol.

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Building

Dependencies:

• wayland-client
• scdoc (optional, for man pages)
• libvarlink (optional, for remote control functionality)

meson build
ninja -C build

Usage

mkdir -p ~/.config/kanshi && touch ~/.config/kanshi/config
kanshi

Configuration file

Each output profile is delimited by brackets. It contains several output directives (whose syntax is similar to sway-output(5)). A profile will be enabled if all of the listed outputs are connected.

profile {
	output LVDS-1 disable
	output "Some Company ASDF 4242" mode 1600x900 position 0,0
}

profile {
	output LVDS-1 enable scale 2
}

Contributing

The upstream repository can be found on SourceHut. Open tickets on the SourceHut tracker, send patches on the mailing list.

License

MIT