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hyprmon

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TUI monitor configuration tool for Hyprland with visual layout, drag-and-drop, and profile management

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# HyprMon

HyprMon is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) tool for configuring monitors on Arch Linux running Wayland with Hyprland. It provides a visual "desk map" where you can arrange monitors using keyboard and mouse controls, with real-time application to Hyprland.

## Features

- **Visual Monitor Layout**: See all your monitors as proportional boxes in a spatial map
- **Keyboard & Mouse Control**: Move monitors with arrow keys or drag them with your mouse
- **Smart Snapping**: Automatic edge and center alignment with visual guides
- **Grid Movement**: Configurable grid sizes (1, 8, 16, 32, 64 pixels)
- **Scale Selection**: Interactive menu with common DPI scaling values (0.5x to 3.0x)
- **Resolution & Refresh Rate**: Choose from all available display modes (1080p@144Hz, 4K@60Hz, etc.)
- **Advanced Display Settings**: Color depth (8/10-bit), color management (sRGB/Wide/HDR), VRR, rotation/transform
- **HDR Support**: HDR color mode with SDR brightness and saturation controls
- **Monitor Mirroring**: Mirror one monitor to another with visual feedback and circular dependency prevention
- **Visual Indicators**: Monitor boxes show HDR, 10-bit, VRR, transform status, and mirror relationships
- **Live Apply**: Instantly apply changes to Hyprland or save them to configuration
- **Safe Rollback**: Revert to previous configuration if something goes wrong
- **Automatic Backups**: Creates timestamped backups before modifying config files
- **Monitor Profiles**: Save and restore different monitor configurations

## Screenshots

![Main Screen](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erans/hyprmon/main/img/hyprmon.png)

![Profiles Screen](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erans/hyprmon/main/img/hyprmon-profiles.png)

## Installation

### Arch Linux

```bash
yay -S hyprmon-bin
```

### Nix

#### Try it!

If you have Nix setup you can try out `hyprmon` without installing it:

```bash
nix run nixpkgs#hyprmon
```

#### From Nixpkgs

```nix
{pkgs, ... }: {
  environment.systemPackages = [ # or home.packages
    pkgs.hyprmon
  ];
}
```

#### Prerequisites

- Go 1.20 or higher
- Hyprland window manager
- `hyprctl` command available
- Optional: `wlr-randr` for additional monitor detection

#### Build from Source

```bash
git clone https://github.com/erans/hyprmon.git
cd hyprmon
go build -o hyprmon
sudo mv hyprmon /usr/local/bin/
```

## Usage

### Main UI
```bash
hyprmon
```

### Profile Management
```bash
# Apply a saved profile directly
hyprmon --profile work

# Show profile selection menu
hyprmon profiles
```

### Keyboard Controls (Main UI)

| Key | Action |
|-----|--------|
| `↑↓←→` or `hjkl` | Move selected monitor by grid size |
| `Shift+↑↓←→` | Move by 10× grid size |
| `Tab` / `Shift+Tab` | Cycle through monitors |
| `G` | Change grid size (1, 8, 16, 32, 64 px) |
| `L` | Toggle snap mode (Off, Edges, Centers, Both) |
| `R` | Open scale selector with common DPI values |
| `F` | Open resolution & refresh rate mode picker |
| `[` / `]` | Decrease/Increase scale by 0.05 |
| `Enter` or `Space` | Toggle monitor active/inactive |
| `C` or `D` | Open advanced display settings dialog |
| `M` | Open monitor mirroring configuration |
| `A` | Apply changes live to Hyprland |
| `S` | Save changes to configuration file |
| `P` | Save current layout as named profile |
| `Z` | Revert to previous configuration |
| `Ctrl+R` | Reload monitors from Hyprland |
| `Q` or `Ctrl+C` | Quit |

### Mouse Controls

| Action | Effect |
|--------|--------|
| Left Click | Select monitor |
| Left Drag | Move monitor (with snapping) |
| Right Click | Toggle monitor active/inactive |
| Scroll Wheel | Adjust monitor scale |

### Visual Indicators

- **Green boxes**: Active monitors
- **Gray boxes**: Inactive monitors
- **Double border**: Currently selected monitor
- **Alignment guides**: Appear when monitors align
- **Status badges**: HDR, 10-bit, VRR, and rotation indicators on monitor boxes
- **Mirror indicators**: →source (mirroring from) and ←target (mirroring to) with dotted lines

## Advanced Display Settings

Press `C` or `D` in the main UI to open the advanced display settings dialog for the selected monitor. This allows you to configure:

### Color Settings
- **Color Depth**: Switch between 8-bit and 10-bit color depth
- **Color Mode**: Choose from Auto, sRGB, Wide, HDR, or HDR-EDID color management
- **SDR Controls**: When in HDR mode, adjust SDR brightness (0.5-2.0) and saturation (0.5-1.5)

### Display Features  
- **VRR (Variable Refresh Rate)**: Configure VRR mode as Off, On, or Fullscreen-only
- **Transform**: Set monitor rotation (Normal, 90°, 180°, 270°) or flipping

### Advanced Dialog Controls
| Key | Action |
|-----|--------|
| `Tab` / `↑↓` | Navigate between settings |
| `Space` | Toggle boolean settings |
| `←→` | Adjust slider values (SDR brightness/saturation) |
| `Enter` | Apply changes and close dialog |
| `Esc` | Cancel changes and close dialog |

## Monitor Mirroring

Press `M` in the main UI to configure monitor mirroring for the selected monitor. This allows you to:

- **Mirror to another monitor**: Show the same content on both displays
- **Visual feedback**: See mirror relationships with directional indicators and dotted lines
- **Circular dependency prevention**: Automatically prevents invalid mirror chains (A→B→C→A)
- **Real-time validation**: Immediate feedback if a mirror configuration would be invalid

### Mirror Configuration Controls
| Key | Action |
|-----|--------|
| `↑↓` | Navigate between available source monitors |
| `Enter` | Set selected monitor as mirror source |
| `D` | Disable mirroring (no source) |
| `Esc` | Cancel and close mirror picker |

### Mirror Troubleshooting
- **Invalid mirror chains**: The system prevents circular dependencies where monitors mirror each other in a loop
- **Source not available**: Ensure the source monitor is active and not already mirroring another display
- **Performance**: Mirroring may impact performance depending on resolution and refresh rate differences

## Profiles

HyprMon supports saving and loading monitor configurations as profiles, perfect for different setups like home, work, or presentation modes.

### Creating Profiles
- In the main UI, press `P` to save the current layout
- Enter a descriptive name (e.g., "home", "work", "laptop")
- Confirm overwrite if a profile with that name exists
- Profiles are stored in `~/.config/hyprmon/profiles/`

### Using Profiles
```bash
# Quick switch via command line (perfect for keybindings)
hyprmon --profile home
hyprmon --profile work
hyprmon --profile laptop-only

# Interactive profile menu - shows all saved profiles
hyprmon profiles

# List all available profile names (active profile marked with *)
hyprmon --list-profiles

# List all profiles formatted as JSON (useful for integration with Waybar, Eww, etc.)
# Will be formatted as array of objects with "name" and "is_active" keys
hyprmon --list-profiles --json
```

The profile menu allows you to:
- Select and apply any saved profile
- Delete profiles with 'D' key
- Open the full UI for creating new profiles

### Hyprland Keybindings
Add these to your `hyprland.conf` for quick profile switching:
```
bind = $mainMod, F1, exec, hyprmon --profile home
bind = $mainMod, F2, exec, hyprmon --profile work
bind = $mainMod, F3, exec, hyprmon --profile laptop
bind = $mainMod, F4, exec, hyprmon profiles
```

### Laptop Lid / Clamshell Mode

HyprMon profiles can be used for laptop clamshell mode by combining them with Hyprland's lid switch bindings. Create two profiles — one for docked use (laptop display off, external monitor only) and one for laptop-only use — then add these lines to your `hyprland.conf`:

```
bindl = , switch:on:Lid Switch, exec, hyprmon --profile docked
bindl = , switch:off:Lid Switch, exec, hyprmon --profile laptop
```

When the lid closes, HyprMon will apply the "docked" profile, disable the laptop display, save the configuration, and automatically migrate workspaces to the external monitor. When the lid opens, the "laptop" profile restores the internal display.

> **Note**: You may need to set `HandleLidSwitch=ignore` in `/etc/systemd/logind.conf` to prevent systemd from suspending the laptop when the lid closes.

### Stable monitor matching with `desc:` format

By default, HyprMon writes monitor lines keyed by connector name (e.g., `monitor=DP-9,…`). For daisy-chained or otherwise indistinguishable monitors, the kernel may assign connector names in a different order across reboots or replugs, which swaps monitor positions.

Hyprland supports matching by EDID description instead:

```
monitor=desc:Dell Inc. DELL U3419W 5HJB6T2,3440x1440@60,0x0,1.00
```

To opt in per monitor:

1. Select the monitor and press `c` (or `d`) to open advanced settings.
2. Toggle **Write as desc:** to On.
3. Save your configuration (`S`) to persist the monitor using `desc:` in whichever Hyprland config format is active.

The toggle is unavailable when the monitor has no EDID description, when two or more connected monitors share the same description (typically identical monitors without a serial number), or when the description contains characters Hyprland cannot parse. The preference persists across sessions in `~/.config/hyprmon/settings.json` and is also stored inside any profile you save that includes the monitor.

Live application via `hyprctl` continues to use connector names — the `desc:` format applies only to persisted config files.

## Configuration

HyprMon reads and writes to your Hyprland configuration file. The location is determined in this order:

1. `$HYPRLAND_CONFIG` environment variable. Paths ending in `.lua` use the Lua writer; other paths use the legacy hyprlang writer.
2. `~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua` when it exists.
3. `~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf` (legacy fallback).

For Lua configs, HyprMon writes monitor rules to `~/.config/hypr/hyprmon.lua` and adds this managed include to `hyprland.lua` if it is not already present:

```lua
-- hyprmon: managed monitor profile include
require("hyprmon")
```

For legacy hyprlang configs, HyprMon keeps the existing behavior and rewrites only the `monitor=` lines in `hyprland.conf`.

### Backup Files

Before any configuration changes, HyprMon creates a backup:
- Location: `<config-file>.bak.<timestamp>`
- These backups are never automatically deleted

## How It Works

1. **Reading**: HyprMon uses `hyprctl monitors -j` to read current monitor configuration
2. **Applying**: Live changes use `hyprctl keyword monitor ...` commands
3. **Saving**: Updates `monitor=` lines in legacy hyprlang config, or updates the managed `hyprmon.lua` sidecar for Lua config
4. **Rollback**: Maintains previous state for quick reversion

## Terminal Requirements

- Requires a terminal with SGR mouse support
- If using tmux, enable mouse mode: `set -g mouse on`
- Recommended terminal size: 80×24 or larger

## Safety Features

- **Automatic Backups**: Creates timestamped backups before any config changes
- **Safe Apply**: Preview changes before applying
- **Rollback Support**: Quick revert to last working configuration
- **Non-destructive**: Only modifies monitor lines in config

## Troubleshooting

### Monitors Not Detected
- Ensure `hyprctl` is available and Hyprland is running
- Try installing `wlr-randr` for additional monitor detection

### Mouse Not Working
- Enable mouse support in your terminal
- For tmux users: Add `set -g mouse on` to your tmux.conf

### Changes Not Persisting
- Check write permissions for your hyprland.conf
- Verify the config path with `echo $HYPRLAND_CONFIG`

## Future Features (Roadmap)

- [x] Monitor profiles (Home, Work, Presentation modes)
- [x] Advanced display settings (color depth, HDR, VRR, rotation)
- [x] DPI-aware positioning (accounts for monitor scale in layout)
- [x] Resolution and refresh rate picker
- [x] Monitor mirroring with circular dependency prevention
- [ ] Alignment menu (distribute, same size, etc.)
- [ ] Auto-switching profiles on monitor hotplug

## License

Apache License 2.0 - See [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details

## Development

### Setting up development environment
```bash
git clone https://github.com/eransandler/hyprmon.git
cd hyprmon
make deps        # Install dependencies
make hooks       # Install git pre-commit hooks
make build       # Build the application
```

### CI/CD Workflows

- **CI**: Runs on every push to main - tests, linting, build verification
- **Release**: Only runs on version tags (v*) - builds binaries and creates GitHub release
- **PR Checks**: Runs on pull requests - comprehensive testing and security scanning

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests or open issues for bugs and feature requests.

## Acknowledgments

Built with:
- [Bubble Tea](https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea) - Terminal UI framework
- [Lip Gloss](https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss) - Style definitions
- [Hyprland](https://hyprland.org/) - Wayland compositor

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