ion, dock and screen configuration

I have a laptop I use at work (with a docking station), in the train and at home (with an external display), on which my environment is ion3.

As I use suspend-to-RAM all the time, I have added some keybindings to automatically reconfigure my screen when I plug/unplug an external display (on the dock as well as direct VGA connection).

The lua code to paste in your .ion3/cfg_ion.lua for the bindings looks like:

function autoscreen_on()
        local f = io.popen('/home/david/bin/autoscreen -c', 'r')
      if not f then
          return
      end
      local s = f:read('*a')
      f:close()
    ioncore.restart()
end

function autoscreen_off()
        local f = io.popen('/home/david/bin/autoscreen -d', 'r')
      if not f then
          return
      end
      local s = f:read('*a')
      f:close()
    ioncore.restart()
end

defbindings("WMPlex.toplevel", {
    bdoc("Turn on any external display and tell ion to reconfigure itself"),
    kpress(META.."F10",
           "autoscreen_on()"),
})

defbindings("WMPlex.toplevel", {
    bdoc("Turn off any external display and tell ion to reconfigure itself"),
    kpress(META.."F11",
           "autoscreen_off()"),
})

It makes use of the following python script (named /home/david/bin/autoscreen in the lua code above):

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import os
import re
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import optparse
parser = optparse.OptionParser("A simple automatic screen configurator (using xrandr)")
parser.add_option('-c', '--connect', action="store_true",
                  dest='connect',
                  default=False,
                  help="configure every connected screens")
parser.add_option('-d', '--disconnect', action="store_true",
                  dest='disconnect',
                  default=False,
                  help="unconfigure every connected screens other than LVDS (laptop screen)")
parser.add_option('', '--main-display',
                  dest='maindisplay',
                  default="LVDS",
                  help="main display identifier (typically, the laptop LCD screen; defaults to LVDS)")

options, args = parser.parse_args()

if int(options.connect) + int(options.disconnect) > 1:
    print "ERROR: only one option -c or -d at a time"
    parser.print_help()
    sys.exit(1)


xrandr = Popen("xrandr", shell=True, bufsize=0, stdout=PIPE).stdout.read()

connected = re.findall(r'([a-zA-Z0-9-]*) connected', xrandr)
connected = [c for c in connected if c != options.maindisplay]

cmd = "xrandr --output %s %s"

if options.connect or options.disconnect:
    for c in connected:
        if options.connect:
            action = "--auto"
        elif options.disconnect:
            action = "--off"

        p = Popen(cmd % (c, action), shell=True)
        sts = os.waitpid(p.pid, 0)