frontend = gui.getFrontend("cli") # the fallback, until we got a proper frontend. This is guaranteed to be available.
cmdArgs = None
-# for auto-config: common names of internal connectors
-commonInternalConnectorPrefixes = ['LVDS', 'eDP']
-commonInternalConnectorSuffices = ['', '0', '1', '-0', '-1']
-def commonInternalConnectorNames():
- for prefix in commonInternalConnectorPrefixes:
- for suffix in commonInternalConnectorSuffices:
- yield prefix+suffix
-
# Load a section-less config file: maps parameter names to space-separated lists of strings (with shell quotation)
def loadConfigFile(filename):
import shlex
raise Exception("You must specify exactly one internal connector.")
internalConnectors = config['internalConnector']
else:
- internalConnectors = commonInternalConnectorNames()
+ internalConnectors = screen.commonInternalConnectorNames()
# run!
return screen.ScreenSituation(internalConnectors, config.get('externalConnectors'))
-class ShowLevels(Enum):
- ONEXTERNAL = ("on-external")
- ONNEW = ("on-new")
- ONERROR = ("on-error")
- def __init__(self, text):
- # auto numbering
- cls = self.__class__
- self._value_ = len(cls.__members__) + 1
- self.text = text
- @classmethod
- def getNames(cls):
- return list(x.text for x in cls)
-
# if we run top-level
if __name__ == "__main__":
try:
parser.add_argument("-s", "--silent",
dest="silent", action='store_true',
help="Prefer to be silent: Opens a UI only if the external screen is not known *and* no default configuration (-r/-e/-i) is given.")
+ parser.add_argument("--no-db",
+ dest="use_db", action='store_false',
+ help="Do not use the database of known screens.")
parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose",
dest="verbose", action='store_true',
help="More verbose output on stderr.")
# There's an external screen connected that we may want to use.
# Fetch info about this screen from the database.
# NOTE: If it is too slow to open the DB twice (reading and saving), we can keep it open all the time
- with database.Database(databaseFilePath) as db:
- situation.fetchDBInfo(db)
+ if cmdArgs.use_db:
+ with database.Database(databaseFilePath) as db:
+ situation.fetchDBInfo(db)
# what to we do?
have_default_conf = bool(cmdArgs.external_only or cmdArgs.internal_only or cmdArgs.rel_position)
no_ui = bool(have_default_conf or (situation.previousSetup and cmdArgs.silent))
# ask the user what to do
setup = frontend.setup(situation)
if setup is None: sys.exit(1) # the user canceled
- with database.Database(databaseFilePath) as db:
- situation.putDBInfo(db, setup)
+ if cmdArgs.use_db:
+ # persists this to disk
+ with database.Database(databaseFilePath) as db:
+ situation.putDBInfo(db, setup)
elif situation.previousSetup:
# apply the old setup again
setup = situation.previousSetup
setup = screen.ScreenSetup(intResolution = None, extResolution = situation.externalConnector.getPreferredResolution())
elif cmdArgs.rel_position is not None:
# construct automatically, based on CLI arguments
- # first, figure out the desired RelativeScreenPosition... waht a bad hack...
+ # first, figure out the desired RelativeScreenPosition... what a bad hack...
relPos = list(filter(lambda relPosItem: relPosFilter(relPosItem[0]) == cmdArgs.rel_position, screen.RelativeScreenPosition.__members__.items()))
- assert len(relPos) == 1, "CLI argument is ambigue"
+ assert len(relPos) == 1, "CLI argument is ambiguous"
relPos = relPos[0][1]
# now we construct the ScreenSetup
if relPos == screen.RelativeScreenPosition.MIRROR: