Lua: Is HL.Monitor.is_mirror useless for now?

[takofaru]

I want to make a toggle where I can mirror my laptop display to an external monitor. I thought that this can be implemented with two options, either with a boolean variable for every time I toggled it or check if a monitor is mirrored or not with the Lua API.

Implementing it with the Lua API, I expect when the external monitor is mirrored, using hl.get_monitor(HL.Monitor.id) would not return nil, but it does.

With that condition, the HL.Monitor.is_mirror function is pretty much useless, as you never know if a monitor is mirrored or not because it's not available when calling the hl.get_monitor(HL.Monitor.id).

Searching through the discussions, the only thing thath came up is this #12910, which is before the Lua-ification

Is it intended, is it still work in progress, or is it gonna be removed?

[lukasgeis]

Not the same problem, but probably related (at least to the 'solution' in #12910).

As far as I can see, there is no equivalent of hyprctl monitors all in the Lua API at the moment. hl.get_monitors() only lists enabled monitors; HL.Monitor also does not have a disabled-field (as per stub), only HL.MonitorSpec. Is this intended?

I had a custom bash script that used to parse hyprctl monitors all -j and disabled/enabled certain monitors based on predefined configs.

Currently, I see no direct way of achieving the same with the Lua API. I imagine, one could tabulate disabled/mirrored monitors in a custom variable and append this collection to hl.get_monitors() but this feels unnecessary complex.

Or am I missing something here?

[vaxerski]

#14693 please test this I am at an aiport