diff --git a/app/gui/src/project-view/composables/stackNavigator.ts b/app/gui/src/project-view/composables/stackNavigator.ts
index 487b8370d0..99b3488368 100644
--- a/app/gui/src/project-view/composables/stackNavigator.ts
+++ b/app/gui/src/project-view/composables/stackNavigator.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export function useStackNavigator(projectStore: ProjectStore, graphStore: GraphS
   }
 
   function stackItemToLabel(item: StackItem, isStackRoot: boolean): string {
-    if (isStackRoot && isProjectEntryPoint(item)) return projectStore.displayName
+    if (isStackRoot && isProjectEntryPoint(item)) return projectStore.name
     const methodName = graphStore.db.stackItemToMethodName(item)
     return methodName ?? 'unknown'
   }
diff --git a/app/gui/src/project-view/stores/project/index.ts b/app/gui/src/project-view/stores/project/index.ts
index 0ea46a61f6..5e755019d9 100644
--- a/app/gui/src/project-view/stores/project/index.ts
+++ b/app/gui/src/project-view/stores/project/index.ts
@@ -119,12 +119,6 @@ export const { provideFn: provideProjectStore, injectFn: useProjectStore } = cre
     const projectNameFromCfg = config.value.startup?.project
     if (projectNameFromCfg == null) throw new Error('Missing project name.')
     const projectName = ref(projectNameFromCfg)
-    // Note that `config` is not deeply reactive. This is fine as the config is an immutable object
-    // passed in from the dashboard, so the entire object will change if any of its nested
-    // properties change.
-    const projectDisplayName = computed(
-      () => config.value.startup?.displayedProjectName ?? projectName,
-    )
 
     const clientId = random.uuidv4() as Uuid
     const lsUrls = resolveLsUrl(config.value)
@@ -400,7 +394,6 @@ export const { provideFn: provideProjectStore, injectFn: useProjectStore } = cre
       },
       id: projectId,
       name: readonly(projectName),
-      displayName: readonly(projectDisplayName),
       isOnLocalBackend,
       executionContext,
       firstExecution,
diff --git a/app/ide-desktop/client/src/config.json b/app/ide-desktop/client/src/config.json
index b08968f6f5..2bd8fe9daa 100644
--- a/app/ide-desktop/client/src/config.json
+++ b/app/ide-desktop/client/src/config.json
@@ -26,11 +26,6 @@
         "project": {
           "value": "",
           "description": "The name of the project to open at startup. If the project does not exist, it will be created."
-        },
-        "displayedProjectName": {
-          "value": "",
-          "description": "The name of the project to be displayed to the user.",
-          "primary": false
         }
       }
     },
diff --git a/app/ide-desktop/client/src/contentConfig.ts b/app/ide-desktop/client/src/contentConfig.ts
index 17baade92c..6fa3fe2cc5 100644
--- a/app/ide-desktop/client/src/contentConfig.ts
+++ b/app/ide-desktop/client/src/contentConfig.ts
@@ -43,8 +43,4 @@ export const VERSION = {
 
 import CONFIG from './config.json' assert { type: 'json' }
 
-export const OPTIONS = linkedDist.config.options.merge(
-  // `valueEval` in `config.json` uses PascalCase scope variables for some reason.
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
-  linkedDist.config.objectToGroup(CONFIG),
-)
+export const OPTIONS = linkedDist.config.objectToGroup(CONFIG)