Enhancement: User-defined friendly names for displays

[hendersj]

I have three monitors, and it would be useful to be able to set a friendly name to know which monitor I'm changing the settings for. My current display names are:

What I'd like is to link DELL_U3419W to the name "Right", DELL_P1914S to "Left", and XG3220 to "Middle". Helpful for those late-night sessions where I don't remember which model is which. :)

[digitaltrails]

Sounds useful - will look into it.

[digitaltrails]

This was delayed due to work on testing ddcutil 2.2 and amending vdu_controls and ddcutil-service appropriately (plus it's was Summer here).

I've just pushed some functional code, it seems to work well, and is a nice improvement. I have yet to implement any validation for uniqueness of the "friendly names".

Attached screenshot shows the new vdu_label field. Note that hovering over the tab or save-button reveals a tooltip with the full path filename (which is also a nice improvement).

[hendersj]

Nice, I like this a lot. Thanks for this!

I discovered in GNOME that there is a way to set a friendly name in the Sound Output selector in Quick Settings (I use an extension called "Quick Settings Audio Device Renamer" (https://github.com/marcinjahn/gnome-quicksettings-audio-devices-renamer-extension) to change the name there - it would be cool if the place that info is stored could be used as a source of data as well so it's named consistently in the UI.

Perhaps that's a future enhancement. This change is much appreciated.

[digitaltrails]

I discovered in GNOME that there is a way to set a friendly name in the Sound Output selector in Quick Settings (I use an extension called "Quick Settings Audio Device Renamer" (https://github.com/marcinjahn/gnome-quicksettings-audio-devices-renamer-extension) to change the name there - it would be cool if the place that info is stored could be used as a source of data as well so it's named consistently in the UI.

Perhaps that's a future enhancement. This change is much appreciated.

I'll see if I can get my head around that sometime. Note that vdu_controls is not gnome specific, so that might be an issue.

[hendersj]

I'll see if I can get my head around that sometime. Note that vdu_controls is not gnome specific, so that might be an issue.

That's fair - certainly would be an issue with it not working on KDE. :)