Unity LowGFX Toggle

README.md

A simple tool to enable disable Unity LowGFX mode.

Inspired whist reading this and a blatent copy of this

As i don't have access to the required Unity version this is compleatly untested

gfx.py

#! /usr/bin/python
 
from gi.repository import Gtk, Gio
 
class Example(Gtk.Window):
	def __init__(self):
		# Setup the window with title and border width.
		Gtk.Window.__init__(self, type=Gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL,
								title="Unity LowGFX",
								resizable=False,
									border_width=10)
		# Create and bind the Gtk Switch with the gsettings schema and its key.
		switch = Gtk.Switch()
		setting = Gio.Settings.new("com.canonical.Unity")
		setting.bind("lowgfx", switch, "active", Gio.SettingsBindFlags.DEFAULT)
		
		# Create the label for the switch
		label = Gtk.Label("Use low GFX mode")
		
		# Position the Switch and its Label inside a Horizontal child box.
		box = Gtk.Box.new(Gtk.Orientation.HORIZONTAL, 40)
		box.pack_start(label, False, False, 10)
		box.pack_end(switch, False, False, 10)
		
		# Add the child box to the window
		self.add(box)
		self.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)
		self.show_all()
		Gtk.main()
		
if __name__ == "__main__":
	Example()