I have a laptop that spends some of it’s time docked to a monitor and keyboard/mouse. I would like to know how to change some settings depending on if it’s connected to the dock or not. Is there a program that can help with this?

Some possible use-cases include:

  • Changing size of the taskbar to smaller/bigger
  • Changing the behavior of the taskbar to auto-hide
  • Changing the font size smaller/bigger
  • Changing power settings performance/battery saver
  • Enabling/disabling auto brightness
  • Enabling/disabling keyboard backlight

These are just a few things I can think of but can provide more.

Something like Android’s Tasker but for Linux would be great.

      • Jediwan@lemy.lolOP
        6·
        1 month ago

        A bash script is like a shell script in Windows. It is a text file that runs multiple commands in order. As if you opened the terminal and typed them in yourself.

        Udev rules I need to learn about but based on context I have to assume it’s a tool for running scripts when specific events happen (like a monitor being plugged in)

            • olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 month ago

              I’d suggest editing these scripts with a tool like VS Code so you can remember exactly what you did.

              • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                2·
                1 month ago

                Half the fun of fixing my code later is trying to figure out what the hell I was thinking when I wrote my code lol

            • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
              21·
              1 month ago

              You might also be interested in cron/crontab. You can schedule scripts/software to run at specific times of day, week, month, year etc.

              Also if you want to learn more about the linux command line, three super useful commands for you are ‘man’, ‘help’ and ‘apropos’.

              man followed by a command, like ‘man find’ will show you the manual pages for the command ‘find’, showing you how to use it.

              In some cases man wont work for some commands, in those cases try ‘help theCommandThatDidntWorkWithMan’.

              apropos followed by a query like ‘apropos network’ will show you any commands that have ‘network’ in their short description to help you find commands that you might want to use for something.

            • squid_slime@lemm.ee
              2·
              1 month ago

              gnome might be tricky to interface with over shell commands, and sadly i use sway so i am limited with advice, checking ubuntu forums would be a good start for you though.

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          1 month ago

          I never knew that was called bash, not sure how I missed the name up to this point lol

          And Udev sounds like something I’m going to get a hell of a lot of use out of given my love of Tasker on Android (basically have it set to do specific things when certain triggers occur (like connecting or disconnecting to or from specific Bluetooth devices, reading specific NFC tags, etc)). I just never thought of trying to set something up like that on my desktops.

      • squid_slime@lemm.ee
        41·
        1 month ago

        bash is one of many ways to interface with linux from shell/terminal, it is what you use to install updates in terminal and can be used to create scripts for automation.

        udev is like an admin tool, udev rules allows a user to apply rules to systems, like if keyboard is removed launch x-application.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        1 month ago

        Google is helpful when you have questions 😉

        It seems that you need to read up on the basics of Linux if you don’t know what a bash script is.

    • Jediwan@lemy.lolOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      Thanks. I know my way around bash scripts but I guess it’s time to learn Udev rules. Are you aware of any examples I can find online?