[KScreen] [Bug 351256] Way to distinguish more monitors with the same vendor/model label

[Sebastian Kügler via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351256

Sebastian Kügler  changed:

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 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
 Resolution|--- |FIXED

--- Comment #5 from Sebastian Kügler  ---
Fixed in Plasma 5.8. Thanks for the report!

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[KScreen] [Bug 351256] Way to distinguish more monitors with the same vendor/model label

[Stefan Becker via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351256

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--- Comment #4 from Stefan Becker  ---
I'm now running plasma 5.6.2 and can add another case where kscreen/plasma gets
confused: because both monitors are identical the panel appears randomly on one
or the other after switching from laptop LVDS to docking station DP-2/DP-3
DP-conected monitors

BTW: when looking at the files in $HOME/.local/share/kscreen/ I can see that
both entries for the external screen the same ID value. I guess that SHA-1
value is calculated only from data which is exactly the same for both monitors.
IMHO including "name" field (== xrandr output name) from "metadata" map would
make the ID unique.

With 5.5.x the behaviour was different: the panel always appeared on the
primary output.

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[KScreen] [Bug 351256] Way to distinguish more monitors with the same vendor/model label

[Rex Dieter via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351256

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[KScreen] [Bug 351256] Way to distinguish more monitors with the same vendor/model label

[Jason Tibbitts via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351256

--- Comment #3 from Jason Tibbitts  ---
Yes, of course I can see that the description changes down below when I click
each one, and to be honest because I have to do this so often I have remembered
exactly which one in the stack needs to be dragged where.  But it did, sadly,
take me a while to figure out how to tell them apart.

I'm sure this is a rather simple fix, but I haven't done any C++ work since
that class I took in 1987.

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[KScreen] [Bug 351256] Way to distinguish more monitors with the same vendor/model label

[Jaroslav Reznik via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351256

--- Comment #2 from Jaroslav Reznik  ---
(In reply to Jason Tibbitts from comment #1)
> I have this problem, too.  At work I have three Dell U2412M monitors; at
> home I have three U2415s.  Due to other kscreen issues, I have to take them
> out of clone mode and arrange them every time I log in, and this isn't
> particularly easy because they all appear identical in the positioning
> window.

Click on each monitor and you will see output under the monitor's layout
editor. At least this way it's possible to identify which monitor is which. But
I'd still like to see in the layout editor too :).

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[KScreen] [Bug 351256] Way to distinguish more monitors with the same vendor/model label

[Jason Tibbitts via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351256

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--- Comment #1 from Jason Tibbitts  ---
I have this problem, too.  At work I have three Dell U2412M monitors; at home I
have three U2415s.  Due to other kscreen issues, I have to take them out of
clone mode and arrange them every time I log in, and this isn't particularly
easy because they all appear identical in the positioning window.

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