List connected, but not activated(?) monitors?

[AkkermanD]

Hey! Thanks for the crate :)
I know nothing about xrandr, but I'm looking to implement toy-project to automatically activate/deactivate my external monitors when I'm connecting/disconnecting them.
I noticed that when I'm just pluggin in the external monitor it appears in the xrandr output:

HDMI-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1680x1050     59.88 +
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   640x480       75.00    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  

This shows even if monitor is not "switched off" by button. But it is not listed in the XHandle::open().unwrap().monitors(). Is it possible to list the monitors that are not "activated" somehow?

[dzfranklin]

I'm not actively working with this crate, so you'd have to do this yourself. I have no idea how xrandr works either, I built this for a toy.

But: .monitors ends up calling a function called XRRGetMonitors

            unsafe { xrandr::XRRGetMonitors(self.sys.as_ptr(), self.root(), 0, &mut count) };

(In lib.rs:120)

And if you look into the autogenerated docs the third parameter is called get_active.

So what I would do in your position is try forking this crate and flipping that parameter from 0 to 1. If that works you could file a PR that exposes some nice API, which I'd be happy to merge.

Good luck! Feel free to ask more questions, I'll see if I remember anything relevant.

[AkkermanD]

Thanks, Daniel! Will look into, not sure when, but I'll get to it :)