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Automate swapping position of two external displays with displayplacer. You will need to customise your builtin ID and displayplacer commands.
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#!/bin/bash | |
BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0"); | |
CONFIG_FILE=$BASEDIR/SWAP_DISPLAY_CONFIG; | |
DISPLAY_CONFIG=`cat $CONFIG_FILE`; | |
if [ -z "$DISPLAY_CONFIG" ] | |
then DISPLAY_CONFIG=0; | |
fi | |
if [ "$DISPLAY_CONFIG" == "0" ] | |
then DISPLAY_CONFIG="1"; | |
else DISPLAY_CONFIG="0"; | |
fi | |
echo config:$DISPLAY_CONFIG | |
# record the current config to file | |
touch $CONFIG_FILE; | |
echo $DISPLAY_CONFIG > $CONFIG_FILE; | |
# Find screen ids | |
dplist=`displayplacer list | tail -n 1` | |
ids=`displayplacer list | tail -n 1 | egrep -o 'id:[A-F0-9-]+' | egrep -o '[0-9A-F-]{36}'` | |
# Sort the ids so they are in consistent order | |
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7442417/how-to-sort-an-array-in-bash | |
IFS=$'\n' ids=($(sort <<<"${ids[*]}")); unset IFS | |
for id in ${ids[@]}; do | |
if [ "$id" != "$builtin" ] | |
then | |
if [ -z "$screenone" ] | |
then | |
screenone=$id | |
else | |
screentwo=$id | |
fi | |
fi | |
done | |
builtin=34CF6778-5B8D-0DE8-96DF-EB47172E8121 | |
echo builtin:$builtin | |
echo screenone:$screenone | |
echo screentwo:$screentwo | |
case $DISPLAY_CONFIG in | |
0) | |
displayplacer \ | |
"id:$screentwo res:2560x1440 hz:60 color_depth:8 scaling:off origin:(0,0) degree:0" \ | |
"id:$screenone res:1440x2560 hz:60 color_depth:8 scaling:off origin:(-1440,-540) degree:90" \ | |
"id:$builtin res:1792x1120 hz:59 color_depth:8 scaling:on origin:(402,1440) degree:0" | |
;; | |
1) | |
displayplacer \ | |
"id:$screenone res:2560x1440 hz:60 color_depth:8 scaling:off origin:(0,0) degree:0" \ | |
"id:$screentwo res:1440x2560 hz:60 color_depth:8 scaling:off origin:(-1440,-540) degree:90" \ | |
"id:$builtin res:1792x1120 hz:59 color_depth:8 scaling:on origin:(402,1440) degree:0" | |
;; | |
esac | |
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