replace ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh with dot

patrick-motard commented 5 years ago

Whenever the number of displays or the ports the displays are plugged into changes, hard-coded values in ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh has to be manually edited in order for the correct env vars to be handed to polybar for it to determine which displays to put the bars on. This issue is similar to the issues faced trying to determine which screenlayout script to run (which is now done via dot displays run).

A couple things that would be really cool are:

dot can take the monitors output by active_monitors=$(xrandr -q | grep " connected" | awk "{print $"${1:-1}"}" ORS=" ") (which looks like "DVI-D-0 HDMI-0 DP-4 " for example) and somehow intelligently guess which monitor is on the left, middle, and right.
dot is responsible for starting polybar, and handing environment variables polybar needs (currently it needs MONITOR_LEFT|RIGHT|MAIN)
i3 startup script calls dot to load polybar instead of calling ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

patrick-motard commented 5 years ago

this is in progress in the dev branch of dot.

patrick-motard commented 5 years ago

This is now complete and in the master branch of dot. Documentation will come soon.

patrick-motard / dotfiles

replace ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh with dot #102