Bind a Workspace to Multiple Monitors

[mabourehab]

Hey everyone,

I have a small question. I have multiple setups (1 at work and 1 at home). I prefer to keep 1 hyprland.conf file between all my machines for easier maintenance. In both setups, I connect to a secondary external display and make that my "primary". I like to always bind workspace 1 to the external monitor. This can be done easily with the following workspace rule:
workspace = 1,monitor:DP-1

However, in the other setup, the monitor is not called DP-1. Therefore, I want to try and make a rule that will bind workspace 1 to whichever of those monitors when it finds one of them. There will never be an instance where both are connected at the same time.

Here is what I tried:

Attempt 1:
workspace = 1,monitor:HDMI-A-1,monitor:DP-1

This attempt only bound the workspace to the last monitor in the line.

Attempt 2:

workspace = 1,monitor:DP-1
workspace = 1, monitor:HDMI-A-1

This I believe caused none to work.

Appreciate the insight!

[vaxerski]

you can't do that.

[khushal-solves]

Hi @vaxerski, I also desire something similar.
I want to be able to see only one single workspace on 2 monitors and all other workspaces are visible only on primary monitor.

Is this workspace based mirroring achievable?
Maybe only activating the secondary monitor (in mirror mode) when we are on a specific workspace.