Bug 396462

Summary:	kscreen-doctor can't parse output name if it contains "." character (e.g. "Dell Inc. ")
Product:	[Plasma] KScreen	Reporter:	bugreporter11
Component:	common	Assignee:	Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gladhorn, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.13.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description bugreporter11 2018-07-13 02:53:32 UTC

kscreen-doctor -o reports:

Output: 446 DP-0.8 enabled connected  DisplayPort etc.

However, when I attempt to use DP-0.8 as a parameter to kscreen-doctor, it results in an error:

Unable to parse argumentsoutput.DP-0.8.enable

escaping the dot with a backslash or quoting the name does not resolve the error. I'm not sure if this is a bug. My guess is that screen names that include dots are possibly not expected and are not handled properly.

Comment 1 Frederik Gladhorn 2018-07-17 06:08:20 UTC

Hi, does xrandr report the same connector name? kscreen-doctor simply doesn't handle "." in connector names, so this is indeed a bug, the question is how to work around it - maybe there could be an alternative separator for the commands (instead of the ".").

Comment 2 bugreporter11 2018-07-17 06:21:16 UTC

(In reply to Frederik Gladhorn from comment #1)
> Hi, does xrandr report the same connector name? kscreen-doctor simply
> doesn't handle "." in connector names, so this is indeed a bug, the question
> is how to work around it - maybe there could be an alternative separator for
> the commands (instead of the ".").

Yes, xrandr reports the screen as "DP-0.8". It is a relatively new Dell monitor and the GPU is a relatively new nvidia card.

If you need more info, please let me know. Thank you.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-11-08 20:21:43 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441653 ***