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Gabriel Brown 4c77bc2f61 Decide whether the other screens join in on workspaces
GNOME's Multitasking panel asked one workspace question worth reproducing, and
it is not which workspace goes on which screen. It is whether the second screen
participates at all: workspaces on the primary display only, or each screen with
its own. Ten rows of per-workspace assignment would be more powerful and worse.

Off is Hyprland's own behaviour and emits nothing. On pins workspaces 1 to 10 --
however many ALT+1..ALT+0 actually reach, read from keybinds.lua rather than
written down twice -- to whichever output is recorded as primary. With no
primary recorded, nothing is pinned: guessing one would move every workspace
onto whichever output happened to sort first, and this machine is in exactly
that state.

Applying is a reload, which is the part that shaped the design. Hyprland reads
workspace rules at config time and will not remove one afterwards -- a rule
written with an empty monitor keeps its old binding, which was checked rather
than assumed. Only a reload clears them, so the config is the only honest source
and the page cannot pretend a change has landed before one happens. Hence a
service that reads `hyprctl workspacerules` back rather than inferring success
from having written the preference, and a Reload row that exists only while the
two disagree.

Verified end to end against the live compositor and put back: off emits nothing,
on emits ten rules naming the primary, and turning it off clears them. The
settings file came back byte-identical.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q84axqUE5inJhf5Jz9CFy1
2026-08-21 02:16:29 -04:00

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-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-- Monitors
--
-- Kuycon P20 on DP-2: 4500x3000 @ 60Hz, 1.5x fractional scale.
-- 4500/1.5 = 3000 and 3000/1.5 = 2000, both integers, so this is a "clean"
-- fractional scale and Hyprland will not complain.
--
-- On HDR --------------------------------------------------------------------
-- GNOME runs this panel in bt2100/HDR. Hyprland CAN do that (cm = "hdr"), but
-- on 0.56.x it currently breaks screencopy: grim screenshots come back empty,
-- and OBS/Sunshine capture and hyprlock's blurred background go with them.
-- Root cause is still open upstream. Since screen capture matters more here
-- than an HDR desktop, the desktop runs SDR at 10-bit and HDR is handed to
-- fullscreen games only, via render.cm_auto_hdr in looks.lua.
--
-- To try full-time HDR anyway, set cm = "hdr" below (or override it in
-- overrides.lua) and read the notes in that file first.
-- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
local prefs = require("prefs")
-- Per-output overrides written by Panama Settings, keyed by output name:
-- { ["DP-2"] = {
-- mode = "3840x2160@60", scale = 2, transform = 0,
-- x = 0, y = 0, primary = true,
-- } }
--
-- Only mode, scale, and transform are read. Color management and bit depth
-- stay here, because those are the settings with a documented reason attached
-- (see the header) rather than preferences, and a settings page has no way to
-- explain the screencopy tradeoff at the moment you would be changing it.
local displays = prefs.get("displays", {})
if type(displays) ~= "table" then
displays = {}
end
local function mode_dimensions(mode)
if type(mode) ~= "string" then
return nil, nil
end
local width, height, refresh = mode:match("^(%d+)x(%d+)@(%d+%.%d+)$")
if width == nil then
width, height, refresh = mode:match("^(%d+)x(%d+)@(%d+)$")
end
width, height, refresh = tonumber(width), tonumber(height), tonumber(refresh)
if width == nil or height == nil or refresh == nil
or width <= 0 or height <= 0 or refresh <= 0 then
return nil, nil
end
return width, height
end
local function valid_mode(mode)
local width = mode_dimensions(mode)
return width ~= nil
end
local function valid_scale(mode, scale)
local width, height = mode_dimensions(mode)
if width == nil or type(scale) ~= "number" or scale ~= scale
or scale <= 0 or scale > 4 then
return false
end
local logical_width = width / scale
local logical_height = height / scale
return math.abs(logical_width - math.floor(logical_width + 0.5)) < 0.0001
and math.abs(logical_height - math.floor(logical_height + 0.5)) < 0.0001
end
local function valid_transform(transform)
return type(transform) == "number"
and transform == math.floor(transform)
and transform >= 0
and transform <= 3
end
local function valid_coordinate(value)
return type(value) == "number"
and value == value
and value == math.floor(value)
and value >= -100000
and value <= 100000
end
local function valid_position(entry)
return valid_coordinate(entry.x) and valid_coordinate(entry.y)
end
local function valid_primary(entry)
return type(entry.primary) == "boolean"
end
local function has_layout_fields(entry)
return entry.x ~= nil or entry.y ~= nil or entry.primary ~= nil
end
local function display_entry(output)
if type(output) ~= "string" or output == ""
or output:match("^[%w_.-]+$") == nil then
return nil
end
local entry = displays[output]
if type(entry) ~= "table" then
return nil
end
if not valid_mode(entry.mode)
or not valid_scale(entry.mode, entry.scale)
or not valid_transform(entry.transform) then
return nil
end
-- Legacy records have none of the layout fields and keep automatic
-- placement. A partially written extended record is unsafe: accepting its
-- mode but guessing its position could overlap or strand another output.
if has_layout_fields(entry)
and (not valid_position(entry) or not valid_primary(entry)) then
return nil
end
return entry
end
local function display_position(entry, fallback)
if entry ~= nil and has_layout_fields(entry) then
return string.format("%dx%d", entry.x, entry.y)
end
return fallback
end
local shipped_mode = "4500x3000@60"
local shipped_scale = 1.5
local shipped_transform = 0
local dp2 = display_entry("DP-2")
hl.monitor({
output = "DP-2",
mode = dp2 and dp2.mode or shipped_mode,
position = display_position(dp2, "0x0"),
scale = dp2 and dp2.scale or shipped_scale,
transform = dp2 and dp2.transform or shipped_transform,
-- 10-bit output. 4500x3000@60 at 10bpc is ~24 Gbps, right at the edge of
-- DP 1.4 HBR3, so this relies on DSC. If the display fails to light up or
-- falls back to a lower mode, drop this line first.
bitdepth = 10,
-- "auto" = sRGB at 8bpc, wide gamut at 10bpc. Not HDR; see header.
cm = "auto",
})
-- Other connected outputs use the same validated per-output store. They keep
-- automatic placement and the compositor's normal color policy; DP-2 alone
-- carries the panel-specific 10-bit policy documented above.
for output, _ in pairs(displays) do
if output ~= "DP-2" then
local entry = display_entry(output)
if entry ~= nil then
hl.monitor({
output = output,
mode = entry.mode,
position = display_position(entry, "auto"),
scale = entry.scale,
transform = entry.transform,
})
end
end
end
-- Any monitor not named above: sane defaults rather than nothing.
hl.monitor({
output = "",
mode = "preferred",
position = "auto",
scale = "auto",
})
-- ── Workspaces on the primary display only ──────────────────────────────────
--
-- GNOME offered one workspace choice worth reproducing: whether the other
-- screens join in. Off, every monitor has its own workspaces and switching
-- affects whichever one has focus -- Hyprland's own behaviour, so it needs no
-- rules at all. On, workspaces 1-10 are pinned to the primary display and a
-- second screen keeps a workspace of its own that stays put.
--
-- Ten because that is how many the keybinds reach: ALT+1 through ALT+0 in
-- keybinds.lua. Binding more would pin workspaces nothing can navigate to, and
-- binding fewer would leave the last few behaving differently from the rest for
-- no reason a person could see.
--
-- The rules are emitted here rather than written live because Hyprland reads
-- them at config time and offers no way to remove one afterwards: writing an
-- empty monitor leaves the previous binding in place. So the config is the only
-- honest source, and applying a change is a reload.
if prefs.get("workspacesOnPrimaryOnly", false) == true then
local primary = nil
for output, entry in pairs(displays) do
if type(entry) == "table" and entry.primary == true
and type(output) == "string" and output:match("^[%w_.-]+$") ~= nil then
primary = output
break
end
end
-- Without a primary there is nothing to pin to, and guessing one would move
-- every workspace onto whichever screen happened to sort first.
if primary ~= nil then
for i = 1, 10 do
hl.workspace_rule({ workspace = tostring(i), monitor = primary })
end
end
end
return true