[alin23]

I recently launched some macOS Shortcuts in Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/#shortcuts) that can arrange monitors in pre-defined layouts like:

    2 Screens Vertically ■̳̲
    2 Screens Horizontally ⫍⃮݄⫎⃯
    4 Screens in a 3-above-1 configuration ⫍⃮■̳̻⫎⃯
    3 Screens in a 2-above-1 configuration ⫍‗⫎
    3 Screens Horizontally ⫍⃮▬̲⫎⃯

It's not the same as DisplayPlacer but for a lot of people this could be enough. They are free and can be used without a Lunar Pro license.

For those having trouble with monitors being swapped around by the OS, there's also a Swap screen positions action in Shortcuts that you can bind to a hotkey to quickly fix this. It even swaps rotations, which is especially useful for those using portrait monitors (one at 90° and one at 270°).

[deanc]

Lunar is awesome. Just FYI there is a link in the following text which doesn't work, so i can't actually see an examples.

> Check out the "Shortcuts" page to find some useful pre-made shortcuts that you can add with a click.

Is it possible to snapshot exact screen positioning using shortcuts? I'd like to take a snapshot of all my settings (orientation, refresh rate, hdr settings, and _exact_ screen positioning) and restore using a shortcut when ever it changes.

[alin23]

Thanks! That "Shortcuts" page is still WIP, I hoped to launch it the same day I released the update but life happened.

No, Lunar doesn't have that snapshot functionality because it's really hard to make it work for every possible setup. UUIDs can change between connections and the user can be left with an unusable snapshot. Or, because of how the HDMI/DP connection was negotiated, some display modes might not be available until a disconnect/reconnect cyle.

And it's impossible to detect the problem and convey it to the user when it happens, it mostly looks like an app bug no matter what I try.

But I am planning to add it in the future, at least in a rudimentary form.

[bygoneera]

Currently using displayplacer with BTT to make keyboard shortcuts. When moving to different hoteling desks, sometimes the laptop is on the left of the additional monitor and other times on the right. Now I have two keybinds that orient my layout. I've used Lunar specifically for the dim below 0 functionality, (thanks for the ongoing development), I'll have to try the new shortcuts to see if they can replace displayplacer.