Retrieving monitor connection information

[Simon Zeni]

On Thu Sep 1, 2022 at 6:23 AM EDT, Andrew Marshall wrote:
> No, but the information is available - so there must be a means of
> retrieving that information?

Not without a protocol.

> A medical device outputs a camera display to each of four monitors,
> attached to display port connectors on the graphics card.  There is a 1:1
> relationship between camera outputs and displays, and a UI allows assigning
> a specific camera output to a specific display port output.

Maybe you can find your way around using the drm-lease-v1 [1] protocol, but
it would be a bit hacky and a lot of work.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/blob/main/staging/drm-lease/drm-lease-v1.xml