layaway

Hey, so, imagine you'd use Sway on a laptop and travel around a lot. Often times when traveling, one can temporarily connect external outputs/screens to the laptop!

But oh no, what dread is waiting upon ye? Using only Sway's mechanisms, one would need to calculate the exact pixel position of each output oneself!

Worry not, as for this overengineered project aims to ease one's pain: Instead of specifying absolute pixel positions, one specifies relative logical positions, like "the output on eDP-1 is centered below DP-3" via a DSL. In fact, this very situation would look like this in the DSL:

dp3 + edp/bottom

And boom, that's all what's needed for this project to calculate and apply the output positions, since it fetches all details it needs from Sway. As shell command, this suffices:

layaway 'dp3 + edp/bottom'

Installation

From the latest release

Check out https://github.com/MultisampledNight/layaway/releases/latest, it lists the shell command to run!

From source

1. Install Rust
2. Run cargo install layaway
3. Use layaway as you please!

[!WARNING] Only Sway on Unixalikes is supported. Feel free to take a peek inside the comms module and open an issue or even PR if you want to change that!

Usage details

See the parse::dsl module for a detailed description (including an ABNF formalization!) of how the DSL works.

You can specify the layout to use over 2 ways: Imperatively over the command line (CLI), which takes precedence if both are specified, or declaratively over the config file, which allows machine-specific configuration.

Config file

Since it's rarely desirable to type the layout each time again on startup one can define a layout to use on each machine via a config file. In that case, all what one needs to do for applying the layout is to run layaway, and it'll look up the layout for this hostname and apply it!

The config file location is determined via directories-next, but essentially boils down to ~/.config/layaway/config.toml (XDG compliant, respecting appropriate env variables if they're set).

It's written in TOML with a single table named [machines]. Each key-value pair is for one machine. The key specifies the hostname for which to use it for, and the value the actual layout in the aforementioned DSL to use in that case.

For example, this is the config file I'm using for two of my machines:

[machines]
destined = "dp + edp/bottom"
overloaded = "dp3 + hdmia/right,bottom"

This'd use dp + edp/bottom if the machine hostname is destined, or dp3 + hdmia/right,bottom if the machine hostname is overloaded.

If the machine hostname is not in the config file, one either needs to add it there or specify the layout description via the CLI.

No apply

In case you'd rather not have the layout directly applied, but just take a look over it or include it in your Sway config file, you can also decide to pass the --no-apply flag to the CLI to instead have the commands that would be ran printed to stdout.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Feel free to open issues or PRs for whatever you'd like to see or want! However: unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.