⚠ This tool is in heavy development and not yet ready to use! ⚠
A script to conveniently switch between several configs.
This is currently a draft and may change in the future.
Imagine having to deal with two versions of a config file. For example using the same device, but sometimes you have a 1080p screen connected to it, other times a 1440p screen.
If you want to switch between your screen setups, you would have to manually edit your config file and change the settings between 1080p/1440p. conswitch should add a convenient solution for it.
Upon adding a config file (e.g. conswitch --add /path/to/config.file), it creates a .conswitch folder in the same location and moves the mentioned config file into this new folder (e.g. config.file.default). Then it symlinks this default config to the file's original location. For now, nothing would have changed.
With conswitch it is possible to create profiles (e.g. conswitch --new profile1440p), which will copy the default config file to a config.file.profile1440p.
Now the user is able to switch the profile (e.g. conswitch --to profile1440p), which will then remove the given symlink of any config file, but then symlinks the appropriate config of the mentioned profile to the original location. (Hint: If the user hasn't changed a specific config he added before, the default one would be used.)
This way a user is able to create profiles for whatever he needs, and with a simple command of conswitch the user is able to change any added configs to a desired profile.
Usages could be:
- home / work configs
- minimal / maximum settings for gaming setups
- debug / development / production environments
This software has been developed for my gaming purposes (switching configs depending if I game on my small or bigger screen). But as you can see, it could be used for any other case where switching between configs might be necessary.