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Zeash

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Registered: 2021-01-26

Posts: 71

Can plymouth be configured to only show on one monitor?

Hi,
For context, I'm running a dual monitor setup, with one of the 2 mounted vertically.

I've recently managed to successfully setup Plymouth on LightDM. The problem I'm facing is that it gets displayed on both of my monitors, causing an odd look that just makes me want to uninstall it entirely. Is there any way to have it displayed on only one (primary) monitor?
Any help is much appreciated.

SteveTech

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2022-09-02

Posts: 2

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Re: Can plymouth be configured to only show on one monitor?

Disable your monitor by forcing KMS modes like done here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … cing_modes

For example, I've put this in my grub cmdline:

video=DP-1:d video=HDMI-A-1:d

Which disables 2 of my monitors during boot, then GDM reads and enables the monitors from monitors.xml.

Thanks,
Steve