With this bash script you can, via command line, list and set already configured display profiles in xfce4-display-settings. This is usefull if you want e.g. to automate stuff by setting profiles with a script or to use a keyboard shortcut.
Version: 0.4.2
Hi! Is it possible to add a tick option to save the configurations set on the GUI window?
I open the GUI via a shortcut to the .sh script directly and always have to set it; for example, the Skip checks on inactive outputs.
Thank you!
$ xfce4-display-profile-chooser.sh -s list -k
Select the profile you want to set:
0) Exit
1) id: 00e01c59a3e26956e8406566d446619db82d2c27, name: right¢er
2) id: 0b0761505df198cb6d85592748a1134abfe1b17a, name: right+center
3) id: 2d8f98d91c740983b8ad03f18d8b578d32d0a8ac, name: all 3, state: set; not active
4) id: 305047e96ec089021660ee5965f893ac80268731, name: center
5) id: 356a192b7913b04c54574d18c28d46e6395428ab, name: 1
6) id: 77de68daecd823babbb58edb1c8e14d7106e83bb, name: 3
7) id: 85c274929bc0e28eafd3734f2c25046c3b95b36b, name: middle
8) id: AutoEnableProfiles, name: true
9) id: Notify, name: true
10) id: Schemas, name: 2d8f98d91c740983b8ad03f18d8b578d32d0a8ac
11) id: ced82d6ccf96442f473200ee3a6c1465363bff88, name: center+right
12) id: d87c448044defb778f33158d8ccf94a20531d600, name: all
make your choice: 3
Display connected to DP-2 do not support this profile (3840x2160 59.996625Hz).
Display connected to DisplayPort-1-0 do not support this profile (3840x2160 30.000000Hz).
Display connected to HDMI-A-1-0 do not support this profile (3840x2160 30.000000Hz).
Cannot set profile 2d8f98d91c740983b8ad03f18d8b578d32d0a8ac - all 3.
Cannot set any profile, claiming the monitors do not support the resolution, even if that profile is already active and working. Note that my computer randomly "looses" profiles, i.e. only two of the 12 (but really 10) profiles listed in the dump above are actually available in display settings. Also note that the "all 3" profile is active, in spite of the flag saying otherwise.
Versions:
$ dpkg-query -l xf* | grep -i '^ii' --color=no
ii xfburn 0.6.2-1 amd64 CD-burner application for Xfce Desktop Environment
ii xfce4-appfinder 4.14.0-1 amd64 Application finder for the Xfce4 desktop environment
ii xfce4-cpugraph-plugin 1.1.0-1 amd64 CPU load graph plugin for the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-dict 0.8.3-1 amd64 Dictionary plugin for Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-indicator-plugin 2.3.4-0ubuntu2 amd64 plugin to display information from applications in the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-mailwatch-plugin 1.2.0-3 amd64 mail watcher plugin for the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-netload-plugin 1.3.2-1 amd64 network load monitor plugin for the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-notes 1.8.1-3 amd64 Notes application for the Xfce4 desktop
ii xfce4-notes-plugin 1.8.1-3 amd64 Notes plugin for the Xfce4 desktop
ii xfce4-notifyd 0.4.4-1 amd64 simple, visually-appealing notification daemon for Xfce
ii xfce4-panel 4.14.3-1 amd64 panel for Xfce4 desktop environment
ii xfce4-panel-profiles 1.0.10-0ubuntu1 all layout manager for the Xfce panel
ii xfce4-places-plugin 1.8.1-1 amd64 quick access to folders, documents and removable media
ii xfce4-power-manager 1.6.6-1 amd64 power manager for Xfce desktop
ii xfce4-power-manager-data 1.6.6-1 all power manager for Xfce desktop, arch-indep files
ii xfce4-power-manager-plugins 1.6.6-1 amd64 power manager plugins for Xfce panel
ii xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64 0.4.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio
ii xfce4-screensaver 0.1.10-0ubuntu1 amd64 screen saver and locker that is integrated with the xfce4 desktop
ii xfce4-screenshooter 1.9.7-1 amd64 screenshots utility for Xfce
ii xfce4-session 4.14.2-0ubuntu1 amd64 Xfce4 Session Manager
ii xfce4-settings 4.14.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 graphical application for managing Xfce settings
ii xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin 0.2.2-1 amd64 plugin to display status notifiers in the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-systemload-plugin 1:1.2.3-1ubuntu1 amd64 system load monitor plugin for the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-taskmanager 1.2.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 process manager for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment
ii xfce4-terminal 0.8.9.1-1 amd64 Xfce terminal emulator
ii xfce4-verve-plugin 2.0.0-1 amd64 Verve (command line) plugin for Xfce panel
ii xfce4-weather-plugin 0.10.2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 weather information plugin for the Xfce4 panel
ii xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.4.3-1 amd64 Alternate menu plugin for the Xfce desktop environment
ii xfce4-xkb-plugin 1:0.8.1-2 amd64 xkb layout switch plugin for the Xfce4 panel
ii xfconf 4.14.1-1 amd64 utilities for managing settings in Xfce
ii xfdesktop4 4.14.2-1 amd64 Xfce desktop background, icons and root menu manager
ii xfdesktop4-data 4.14.2-1 all Xfce desktop background, icons and root menu (common files)
ii xfig 1:3.2.7b-2 amd64 Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
ii xfig-doc 1:3.2.7b-2 all XFig on-line documentation and examples
ii xfig-libs 1:3.2.7b-2 all XFig image libraries and examples
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.4+nmu1 all 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.5 all standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.5-0ubuntu1 all Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.3-1.1 all scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+6 amd64 X Window System font utility programs
ii xfpanel-switch 1.0.10-0ubuntu1 all transitional package
ii xfsprogs 5.3.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
ii xfwm4 4.14.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 window manager of the Xfce project
Applying a profile that contains one or more displays that are not connected can lead to a misconfiguration.
From what I see in xfconf, the only value I could use in order to match configured displays with connected displays should be EDID value.
We need a way, in bash, to retrieve that value in the same format, as it isn't the same of what we can get with e.g. xrandr --prop.
example:
We want to e.g. set profile d6c313ffc53db7cfeee6fa40538985c5eefb24cc. This profile has two configured EDID:
$ xfconf-query -v -l -c displays -p /d6c313ffc53db7cfeee6fa40538985c5eefb24cc | grep '/EDID '
/d6c313ffc53db7cfeee6fa40538985c5eefb24cc/DVI-I-1/EDID d57a084978bbd241c62509aea3ab64a427ffc73e
/d6c313ffc53db7cfeee6fa40538985c5eefb24cc/HDMI-0/EDID 471766147bfc30d2842655fadc76e95ca11d595b
Now we want to be sure those two EDIDs to be connected before set the profile.
So the question is, how?
With xrandr --prop we can get the connected EDIDs:
...
DVI-I-1 connected
...
EDID:
00ffffffffffff0041622101b12a3000
0314010380341d78eaeed5a555489b26
125054b30c00714f8180810095000101
010101010101023a801871382d40582c
450009252100001e000000fc00566973
656f2032343044580a20000000fd0038
4c1f5312000a202020202020000000ff
004432343043303032343030310a00e4
...
HDMI-0 connected
...
EDID:
00ffffffffffff001e6d010001010101
011e010380a05a780aee91a3544c9926
0f5054a1080031404540614071408180
d1c00101010108e80030f2705a80b058
8a0040846300001e662150b051001b30
4070360040846300001e000000fd0018
781e873c000a202020202020000000fc
004c4720545620535343520a202001e4
02034ff15a6160101f66650413051403
021220212215015d5e5f6263643f4029
0957071507505507006e030c001000b8
3c2400800102030468d85dc401788003
02e200cfe305c000e3060d01e20f3356
5e00a0a0a02950302035004084630000
1e000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000f3
...
but they are not in the same format as those seen in xfconf-query, so we need:
CONNECTED_EDIDS="$(some command to get current connected displays EDID the same way as seen in xconf-query)"
I've been pointed to https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/-/blob/master/common/edid-parse.c
Any help is greatly appreciated.
IN ANY CASE a part from EDID, various checks are performed to assure a profile can be applied in first place, so this script could be considered reliable, especially if your displays are always the same.
Running the script results in several errors of the form
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
which seem to be the result of the execution of perl code in the script. It looks to me, like there is some problem with the quotation marks in the perl commands.
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