#audition

"Keep these changes?" for any config file. Your display settings ask you to confirm a new resolution and switch back by themselves if you don't. audition does the same for your compositor, bar and notification configs:

audition ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf    # opens it in $EDITOR; save and quit to start the trial
audition keep                            # happy with it
audition revert                          # or roll back now. Do nothing and it rolls back in 45 s.

A typo that leaves you with no keybinds, a bar that never comes back, or a monitor line that blanks your screen fixes itself.

• Snapshot, apply, countdown. The files are copied first. After you edit them, audition reloads what they belong to (Hyprland, sway, Waybar, eww, dunst or mako, from the path) and starts the countdown.
• Rollback can't be lost. The rollback is a systemd user timer, not a process in your terminal, so it still happens if the compositor or terminal crashes during the trial.
• Broken configs revert at once. If hyprctl configerrors (or swaymsg reload) reports a new error after the reload, the old files come back straight away.
• Visible. An eww countdown bar shows at the top of the screen if eww is installed; otherwise you get a notification.

#Install

git clone https://github.com/Tjabooo/audition.git
cd audition && ./install.sh

Needs Python 3 and systemd (user session). eww and notify-send are optional.

Bind keep and revert to keys that don't depend on the config you're trying, e.g. in Hyprland:

bind = SUPER ALT, Return, exec, ~/.local/bin/audition keep
bind = SUPER ALT, BackSpace, exec, ~/.local/bin/audition revert

#Options

-t SECONDS	Trial length (default 45, or AUDITION_SECONDS)
--no-edit FILE...	Snapshot now and edit however you like, then run audition apply
several files	audition hyprland.conf ~/.config/waybar/config.jsonc trials them together
audition status / stream	JSON (active, left, files, pct) for Waybar or eww
AUDITION_EWW	Use this eww config folder. By default it's the first of yours that defines an audition window, else the bundled one.
AUDITION_SOUNDS=0	No sounds (freedesktop theme sounds via pw-play/paplay)

#License

MIT