Py3status: [Module > Xrandr] Can't manage to make the "<OUTPUT_pos>" function work

[FlorentDancy]

When I click on eDP-1+DP-1 on my i3bar generated by py3status, my 2 screens get mirrored instead of displaying side by side.

If I just run xrandr --output eDP-1 --right-of DP-1 in my term, it works well.

I think that for some reason, the module doesn't understand/read the DP-1_pos line in the config, considering the command which is run by py3status when I click on my bar (see log below).

Any idea?

Thanks a lot,

Flo

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py3status version: 3.4

i3status.conf

xrandr {
        fallback = "eDP-1"
        force_on_start = "eDP-1+DP-1"
        DP-1_pos = "left-of eDP-1"
}

$ xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
 (...)
DP-1 connected 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 708mm x 398mm
   (...)
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)

/var/log/messages

Mar 29 20:22:18 localhost py3status: Module `xrandr`: command "xrandr --output eDP-1 --auto --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DP-1 --auto --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off --output DP-2 --off --output HDMI-2 --off" exit code 0

[tobes]

Thanks for this report

I think that for some reason, the module doesn't understand/read the DP-1_pos line in the config,

I think you are on to something. The issue is here https://github.com/ultrabug/py3status/blob/master/py3status/parse_config.py#L105

we only accept certain chars in a token you can get around this by quoting

xrandr {
        fallback = "eDP-1"
        force_on_start = "eDP-1+DP-1"
        "DP-1_pos" = "left-of eDP-1"
}

@ultrabug what do you think, should we allow the - in tokens, or just better document the quote thing?

[FlorentDancy]

Thanks A LOT @tobes, it works perfectly now :)

I second your comment to Ultrabug!

[ultrabug]

@tobes I think we should allow the - in the tokens yep

[FlorentDancy]

For my personal knowledge: I didn't have this bug a couple of weeks before, because my outputs were named eDP1 and DP1: what entity changed their names (to eDP-1 and DP-1), how, why? What defines the name of an output?

[lasers]

Graphic drivers, I think... nvidia, nouveau, xorg, etc. You should be able to control the device names better using something like udev... only if you're invested in doing that.

[tobes]

In master, quotes no longer needed. Thanks again for bringing this issue to light