Add a displays widget for monitor layout and per-monitor wallpapers

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@@ -52,3 +52,51 @@ binding to the shell's own audio, brightness and media services. Polling only
runs while a panel is open, so the cost is bounded, but wiring these to the
services is the obvious next refinement and would remove the last per-tick
process spawns.
## Displays
`blob.displays` arranges monitors and assigns wallpapers per monitor. Opened
with `Super + Shift + Ctrl + D` or the Blob menu's Displays row.
### Monitors tab
A scaled picture of the desktop, one draggable rectangle per monitor. Dropping
one applies the new position immediately. Edges snap to a neighbour's edge
within 60 logical pixels, so monitors end up touching exactly.
Per-monitor controls: mode, scale, enable or disable, and mirror.
**Scale options are filtered, not free.** Hyprland steps fractional scaling in
1/120 and rejects a scale that does not land on a whole number of physical
pixels on both axes. `DisplayModel.scaleIsValid` applies that rule, so only
usable scales are offered. On a 1920x1080 panel that means 1.0 and 1.2 are
adjacent with nothing between them, which is the constraint `hypr/monitors.lua`
documents by hand.
**Nothing is written to `monitors.lua`.** Every change goes through
`hyprctl keyword monitor` and lasts until the config reloads or the session
ends. "Reset to monitors.lua" runs `hyprctl reload` and makes the checked-in
config authoritative again. To keep a layout, edit `monitors.lua` yourself -
`blob display arrange list` prints the current layout in the exact keyword form,
ready to copy.
### Wallpapers tab
A thumbnail grid of `~/wallpapers`. Clicking one assigns it to the selected
monitor through `blob-bg-monitor`, which symlinks it under
`~/.local/state/blob/backgrounds/<output>`.
`blob.background` already drew one window per screen but pointed them all at the
same image. It now resolves per screen: a monitor with an assignment shows it,
and a monitor without one shows the global wallpaper from `blob-bg-set`. The
crossfade machinery stays on the global path only, so an assigned monitor swaps
without the reveal animation rather than risking that code.
| Command | Does |
| --- | --- |
| `blob bg monitor <output> <image>` | assign a wallpaper to one monitor |
| `blob bg monitor <output> --clear` | fall back to the global wallpaper |
| `blob bg monitor --list` | show assignments |
| `blob display arrange list` | print the layout as monitor keywords |
| `blob display arrange apply <kw>` | apply a keyword now |
| `blob display arrange reset` | reload, restoring monitors.lua |