Hook script not executed in some environments

[antimatter84]

On a laptop I have saved two profiles:

• 4k: a 4k monitor at home, where I only use the 4k monitor
• work: laptop monitor + two Full HD monitors in the office

Both profiles have a postswitch shell script which will adjust the font scaling factor in Cinnamon. While I use factor 1.0 with the "work" profile, I use factor 1.2 with the "4k" profile due to the HiDPI nature of the 4k monitor.

However, the work profile won't run as the font factor is still at 1.2 after I connecting the docking station at my work place. I have to adjust by hand.
The hook script at home does apparently run, as the font factor is always set to 1.2 (even after a day at the office with factor 1.0).

Both hook scripts are executable :

#!/bin/bash
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.0

Can you help?

Env: Ubuntu 22.04, Cinnamon desktop, latest autorandr version

[Hammermaniac]

Same issue for me, I have scripts that uses hydrapaper to set wallpapers according to the environment being set — I also use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Scripts are:

1. ~/.config/autorandr/default/postswitch

#!/bin/bash
# Put in a number of wallpapers equal to your maximum monitors number
touch /tmp/autorandr.txt
(
    flatpak run org.gabmus.hydrapaper -d -c "$HOME/personal/wallpapers/wallpaper1.jpg" "$HOME/personal/wallpapers/wallpaper2.jpg" "$HOME/personal/wallpapers/wallpaper3.jpg"
) > /tmp/autorandr.txt 2>&1

2. ~/.config/autorandr/postswitch

#!/bin/bash
# Put in a number of wallpapers equal to your maximum monitors number
touch /tmp/autorandr.txt
(
    flatpak run org.gabmus.hydrapaper -d -c "$HOME/personal/wallpapers/wallpaper1.jpg"
) > /tmp/autorandr.txt 2>&1

It works perfectly when connecting it to a docking station (which has 2 displays connected via Display Port), however I can see that the script doesn't even get executed when disconnecting from the docking station, because I manually delete the /tmp/autorandr.txt file before connected and disconnecting, the file only gets created and populated when reconnecting to the docking station.

However, when forcing the config in either case with autorandr --load undocked --force and autorandr --load default --force they both work flawlessly. I've also tried using 1 script utilizing xrandr --query | grep <display> but that didn't work either due to the script not even executing when disconnecting from the docking station.

I have found a workaround that I'm quite happy with — when I lock my workstation (Meta+L) before disconnecting from the docking station, the script does in fact execute and it works well. Still, I thought I might add this comment seeing as it seems to be something specific to Ubuntu 22.04.