Bug 72020 - intel-virtual-output: Show a nice name for the virtual displays
Summary: intel-virtual-output: Show a nice name for the virtual displays
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/intel (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Assignee: Chris Wilson
QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
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Reported: 2013-11-26 08:29 UTC by Kirill Müller
Modified: 2013-11-26 10:42 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of Display applet (30.26 KB, text/plain)
2013-11-26 08:29 UTC, Kirill Müller
no flags Details

Description Kirill Müller 2013-11-26 08:29:22 UTC
Created attachment 89817 [details]
Screenshot of Display applet

Currently, it reads "Unknown Display" in Ubuntu's "Display" applet when `intel-virtual-output` is running (see attachment). Any chance to show something sensible there, perhaps even related to the "real" displays that are attached to the virtual ones?
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2013-11-26 09:44:48 UTC
I think it gets the useful name from the EDID, so

commit 36ac68bedd3b30d7bdf0f40b438b45a7c4dec9e5
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 26 09:41:42 2013 +0000

    intel-virtual-output: Clone remote EDID for virtual outputs
    
    References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72020
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

should make things prettier.
Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2013-11-26 10:22:22 UTC
Indeed seems to do the job...
Comment 3 Kirill Müller 2013-11-26 10:28:02 UTC
Thanks, works for me. Would you consider marking somehow that these are actually virtual displays, perhaps by appending/prepending an asterisk?
Comment 4 Chris Wilson 2013-11-26 10:40:37 UTC
I think that may be beyond my powers (since I don't directly control the string). You can ask gnome-control-center if they would consider adding additional information. I guess it might be a ConnectionType property which we could add (to xf86-video-intel) - that would need some coordination.
Comment 5 Kirill Müller 2013-11-26 10:42:14 UTC
Oh. Well, no need to bother then. After all, I do know that it's a virtual display, but the regular user just expects everything to work out of the box and would not care about these details ;-)


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