Kanshi Ansible role

This role install and configure Kanshi service.

Variables

This role needs two variables for creating Kanshi configuration file sway_output provided by ansible-sway role and kanshi_profiles.

sway_outputs is not mandatory butuseful to provide id ans options for outputs.

Here is an example of kanshi_profile

kanshi_profiles:
  - profile: 'laptop'
    screens:
      - id: 'eDP-1'
  - profile: 'home'
    screens:
    - id: 'eDP-1'
      enable: false
    - id: 'iiyama_27_4k'
      position: '1080,0'
    - id: 'iiyama_23_fhd'
      position: '0,0'
      mode: '1920x1024'
      transform: 90
    options:
      - id: 'eDP-1'
        option: 'bg'
        value: '~/images/bg.jpg'
    commands:
      - swaymsg workspace 1, move workspace to +eDP1+

• profile: name of the profile
• screens: list of outputs
  • id: id of the screen, could be the real name, ouput name like HDMI-1 (both given by swaymsg -t output) or id referenced in sway_outputs
  • position: absolute position of the screen
  • mode: resolution of the screen
  • scale: scale factor for the screen
  • transform: rotation (90, 180 or 270 degres) for the screen
• options: list of options:
  • id: see above in screens section
  • options: option name
  • value: value
• commands: list of command to execute when switching to profile