Python daemon that listens to Xcb Randr events, and manages screen layouts. It stores layout for each set of connected screens (using EDID to differentiate different screens on same output). It can restore old layouts when you plug the same screens as before. It also updates its layout database when you manually change the layout, using 'xrandr' or a graphical tool.

The daemon is available as a python library. To launch it, you need to create a python file importing the library, and start this python file as the daemon:

import slam
slam.start(<options>)

• Support for properties like backlight
• dbus interface :
  • backlight change
  • force normalize of manual state
  • get state info
  • force backend reload (interface for hotplug events)
• Plugin system to make additionnal actions when change of layout :
  • Background
  • i3 configure by screens ?
• Force reload of state in X when udev hotplug event ?

Requires:

• python >= 3.2
• ISL library (usually shipped with gcc)
• Boost::Python
• xcffib python Xcb binding

Use standard distutils (--user will place it in a user local directory):

python setup.py install [--user]