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I have Arch installed on a laptop with an external monitor. With SDDM as my display manager, I'd like the external monitor to be the "default" when the laptop lid is closed. Digging through the config files, I see no way of defining the external monitor as default using SDDM. Is this even possible?
I almost never use the laptop screen itself, so solutions which break using it are acceptable. 99.9% of the time I use my laptop as a desktop with external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
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You can create a xorg config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to have the connected monitor as Primary one:
➜ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "eDP-1"
Option "LeftOf" "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
VendorName "LG"
ModelName "24UD58"
Option "RightOf" "eDP-1"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "Primary" "true"
EndSection
In my case the HDMI-1 is the name of the connected monitor (marked as Primary) so when I power on the laptop I only work with the HDMI monitor.
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