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LVN

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Registered: 2021-02-01

Posts: 5

xrandr + qtile, monitor configuration

I currently use the following code to set configure my monitors (dual monitor setup).

#!/bin/sh

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 144 --primary
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 75 --noprimary --left-of HDMI-0

But even though I specified the primary monitor Qtile still thinks my DVI-I-1 is the primary monitor (i.e. the info bar of qtile is located there).
Does anybody know of a workaround for this problem?

Btw. I also tried to configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "HDMI-0"
        Option          "Primary"       "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "DVI-I-1"
        Option          "LeftOf"        "HDMI-0"
EndSection

With this it did detect the HDMI-0 as the primary one, but then the DVI-I-1 was always on the right instead of on the left (also tried changing Option "RightOf" and didn't work).

Last edited by LVN (2021-02-01 12:18:01)

yorcher

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Registered: 2021-02-11

Posts: 3

Re: xrandr + qtile, monitor configuration

Are you setting your screens up in ~/.confg/qtile/config.py ?

If you have a two monitor setup and wanted the info bar to show up just on one of them, it should look something like this:

screens = [
    Screen(
	top=bar.Bar(
            [	
                widget.Clock(),
            ],
            28,
        ),
    ),
    Screen(
    ),
]

If you wanted the bar on the other screen, just move the bar widget to the next  Screen section.

screens = [
    Screen(
    ),
    Screen(
	top=bar.Bar(
            [	
                widget.Clock(),
            ],
            28,
        ),
    ),
]