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Bug 590807 - Disambiguate Monitor Identifiers if necessary
Disambiguate Monitor Identifiers if necessary
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Federico Mena Quintero
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-05 08:26 UTC by Martin Kretzschmar
Modified: 2013-09-03 10:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28

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Current situation (30.84 KB, image/png)
2009-08-05 08:27 UTC, Martin Kretzschmar 		Details

Description Martin Kretzschmar 2009-08-05 08:26:23 UTC 
At work I've got a laptop and two 24 inch screens, both screens are the same model, so they show up with the same label. I never know which monitor is on the left side and which on the right.

Would it make sense to display the connector for each monitor in this case?
Comment 1 Martin Kretzschmar 2009-08-05 08:27:21 UTC 
Created attachment 139922 [details]
Current situation
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2009-08-06 20:48:41 UTC 
Yeah, I have the same problem with identical monitors.  I'll make the labels also mention the connection name.
Comment 3 Allan Day 2013-04-21 11:58:20 UTC 
The current plan is to identify displays by number only; this would avoid the disambiguation issue.

See: https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Displays#Tentative_Guidelines

(These designs are due to change; comments are welcome.)
Comment 4 Thomas Wood 2013-09-03 10:16:33 UTC 
The design Allan mentioned has now been implemented and resolves this issue by using a unique number for each display.