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Show to which port a monitor is connected to
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Display Settings

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Description Pim Pronk 2017-01-10 15:27:00 CET
If you have a multiple monitor setup with the same type of monitors, there is no way to see which monitor is which (except by using 'Identify Displays').

I would like to see in the Display dialog to which output port a monitor is connected too. For example output, see xrandr --listmonitors which returns something like '0: +HDMI-A-0 1920/518x1200/324+1080+480  HDMI-A-0'. So I would like to show 'HDMI-A-0' in the Display dialog.

Unfortunately I am not sure about the best place to add this, so what do you think?

E.g. we could add the port to the display_name in the combobox ('DELL P2414H on HDMI-A-0', or add a 'Port:' label under the combobox that only contains the port or add the Port information only as a tooltip of the combobox.
Comment 1 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2019-01-11 23:37:56 CET
To be honest that feels a little like TMI (too much information). Why would the average user want to know/see this information?

I mean: how many displays do you have connected on a regular basis that you keep changing the connectors for so this is relevant enough to *always show*.

As with https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13285 I would say the identification popups should suffice for now.

Bug #13286

Reported by:
Pim Pronk
Reported on: 2017-01-10
Last modified on: 2019-01-11

People

Assignee:
Jérôme Guelfucci
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
4.12.0

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