This option will prepend a prefix infront of displaynames which are made up of nicknames (set using /nick) This option will prepend a colour code to the start of the displayname if the player is op. This option may cause nickname tab completion to fail. This option enables (tab) player list updates, which updates the list with players displayname (if short enough). We recommend you keep this to 15 or less when 'change-playerlist' is set to true.

GM based prefix/suffix will be included when calculating max length. This option allows you to set the max length of a nickname. This option allows you to completely disable the displayname changing The maximum length that Bukkit allows for the player list is 16 characters, so it is recommended you keep the prefix/suffix for the displaynames down to just a few characters, otherwise you will find that nicknames are truncated.Įssentials has 6 settings related to displaynames in the Essentials config file, these are: For Group Manager this is generally the groups.yml in your world folder. The displayname formatting is pulled from your permissions file, or group permissions file. This is shown in places such as the output from /list, in the 'tab list' and is found displayed in most plugins you have installed.

In Minecraft, your displayname is what you see in messages whenever a command needs to display your name in some way.

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