Trough the
year I
wrote a
few applets
that I
use in combination with media/extra keys on my keyboard. Reading
the Arch Linux BBS yesterday I found an interesting script
called the "ThinkPad Presentation Manager" that offers a
quick selection for enabling external displays. Ideal for binding with
the Presentation key found on many laptops, and on
my TravelMate. Until
now I used a bunch of shell aliases to enable some commonly used
setups, like "tvon" for watching movies or "vgawine"
for playing
Syberia.
I liked the idea and find it to be a nicer solution than shell
aliases, so I wrote my own with Python
and pygtk. Pypres
is a small utility for enabling external displays based on presets,
intended to be used with the "Presentation" media button found on many
laptops. Double-click on a preset or selecting one and pressing
the OK button will invoke xrandr and exit. The code
could also serve me as a good skeleton for quickly creating new
small ListView/TreeView utilities in the future.