frontend = getFrontend("cli") # the fallback, until we got a proper frontend. This is guaranteed to be available.
# for auto-config: common names of internal connectors
-commonInternalConnectorNames = ['LVDS', 'LVDS0', 'LVDS1', 'LVDS-0', 'LVDS-1']
+commonInternalConnectorPrefixes = ['LVDS', 'eDP']
+commonInternalConnectorSuffices = ['', '0', '1', '-0', '-1']
# this is as close as one can get to an enum in Python
class RelativeScreenPosition:
# add some convencience get functions
return result
+# iterator yielding common names of internal connectors
+def commonInternalConnectorNames():
+ for prefix in commonInternalConnectorPrefixes:
+ for suffix in commonInternalConnectorSuffices:
+ yield prefix+suffix
+
# helper function: execute a process, return output as iterator, throw exception if there was an error
# you *must* iterate to the end if you use this!
def processOutputGen(*args):
raise Exception("Connector %s does not exist, there is an error in your config file." % internalConnector)
else:
# auto-config
- internalConnector = findAvailableConnector(commonInternalConnectorNames, allConnectors)
+ internalConnector = findAvailableConnector(commonInternalConnectorNames(), allConnectors)
if internalConnector is None:
raise Exception("Could not automatically find internal connector, please use ~/.dsl.conf to specify it manually.")
# all the rest is external then, obviously - unless the user wants to do that manually
connectorArgs[c] = ["--off"]
# check whether we got an external screen or not
- # Check what to do
usedExternalConnector = findAvailableConnector(externalConnectors, connectors) # *the* external connector which is actually used
hasExternal = not cmdArgs.internal_only and usedExternalConnector is not None
if hasExternal:
subprocess.check_call(["xbacklight", "-set", "100"])
except FileNotFoundError:
print("xbacklight has not been found, unable to turn your laptop backlight on.")
+ except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+ print("xbacklight returned an error while attempting to turn your laptop backlight on.")
except Exception as e:
frontend.error(str(e))
raise