XFCE and well, straightforward usage without endless tweaking and customization. On the other side, I recently(~2 years:)) felt in love with tiling window manager BSPWM and keyboard-driven usage.

Sadly, popup window name is same as for vscode itself. I will have a look on that script, that’s something to begin with. I use only one monitor at time, I don’t use “extended mode”. And what I really want - to transfer already opened applications to workspaces from different monitor: I have vscode opened on 4th workspace on laptop, after I plug in external monitor and setup xrandr for it, than I turn it off and want to continue working with vscode on 4th workspace on latop. Right now this is not possible from the box.

Yes.

It’s easy way to learn things without fear to break something, can herbstluftwm use sxhkd?

Easily but why?

Sir, you are magician, addition to script did the trick!

Will definitely play with autorandr, because if I understood you correctly, it can automatically reload bspwm listening to certain events.

Right now I’m trying master (or understand, at least) QEMU, can you recommend me some combination with sane defaults (for ex mint + installer for herb) I can play on vm?

Thank you!

So I played around arandr and resolved initial issue…but got another one (as always). I added script to my bspwmrc file:

if [[ $(xrandr -q | grep "DP-1 disconnected") ]];
then
    xrandr --output eDP-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DP-1 --off --output HDMI-1 --off --output DP-2 --off --output HDMI-2 --off
    bspc monitor eDP-1 -d 1 2 3 4 5
else
    xrandr --output eDP-1 --off --output DP-1 --mode 1680x1050 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off --output DP-2 --off --output HDMI-2 --off
    bspc monitor DP-1 -d  1 2 3 4 5
fi

So if i plug external monitor and reload bspwm (which also reloads polybar), it adds second pane to my polybar (1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5), but works.

Now smth interesting, when I unplug external monitor and then again reload bspwm, it switches to internal one but now cuts window for every application.

• Question 1: how to get rid of multiple workspaces on polybar when I toggle external monitor?
• Question 2: how to force bspwm respect resolution after switching resolutions?

I use dummy script to toggle monitors (from archwiki)

#!/bin/sh
intern=eDP-1
extern=DP-1

if xrandr | grep "$extern disconnected"; then
    xrandr --output "$extern" --off --output "$intern" --auto
else
    xrandr --output "$intern" --off --output "$extern" --auto
fi

Hm, never used arandr but it’s similar to XFCE utlity on the first sight.

You setup profile where one display is enabled, another disabled, name him “external” and active in arandr every time connecting to external monitor, correct?

I turn of internal display and enable external by script, I don’t use mirroring or extending

Here is xrandr output:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 173mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.97    59.96    59.93
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88
   1400x1050     59.98
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82
   1280x1024     60.02
   1400x900      59.96    59.88
   1280x960      60.00
   1440x810      60.00    59.97
   1368x768      59.88    59.85
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74
   1024x768      60.04    60.00
   960x720       60.00
   928x696       60.05
   896x672       60.01
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82
   960x600       59.93    60.00
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25
   840x525       60.01    59.88
   864x486       59.92    59.57
   700x525       59.98
   800x450       59.95    59.82
   640x512       60.02
   700x450       59.96    59.88
   640x480       60.00    59.94
   720x405       59.51    58.99
   684x384       59.88    59.85
   640x400       59.88    59.98
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32
   512x384       60.00
   512x288       60.00    59.92
   480x270       59.63    59.82
   400x300       60.32    56.34
   432x243       59.92    59.57
   320x240       60.05
   360x202       59.51    59.13
   320x180       59.84    59.32
DP-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1680x1050     59.95 +
   1920x1080     60.00    50.00    59.94
   1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94
   1600x1000     60.01
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02
   1440x900      59.90
   1280x960      60.00
   1152x864      75.00
   1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94
   1152x720      59.97
   1024x768      75.03    60.00
   832x624       74.55
   800x600       75.00    60.32
   720x576       50.00
   720x480       60.00    59.94
   640x480       75.00    60.00    59.94
   720x400       70.08
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I also don’t mirror, just switch from laptop to external and vice versa. Strange because lighdtm doesn’t break anything for XFCE, quite interesting what is the reason

maybe I’m just one of very few that have external resolution lower than host

lightdm on both machines, any tips (besides installing xfce settings) how to achieve this scaling?:) strange, but I will try sddm