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Huulivoide

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From: Finaland->Lapland->Kemi

Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 19

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Change the default monitor

I moved my TV from the right side of the PC to the left side. Before everything was fine.
When I opened app it would come up in the monitor and I could drag it to the TV trough the
right side of the monitor. So I have changed the xorg settings so that the secondary
desktop on the TV is on the left side of the monitors desktop, I can move apps from one
to another whit no problem. But now there is on quite a big problem. When ever I open
some app instead of showing in the monitor it open in the very left up corner in the TV
also the icons on the Gnome desktop will organize them selfs in the TV desktop
instead of the monitor. How do I set the primary monitor whit r600g driver?
Preferably in xorg config files but xrandr is ok too.

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: Change the default monitor

man xrandr

especially the part about the --primary flag!

hope that helps.

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Huulivoide

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From: Finaland->Lapland->Kemi

Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 19

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Re: Change the default monitor

I have tried the --primary flag but it won't have anykind of effect

BurntSushi

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From: Massachusetts

Registered: 2009-06-28

Posts: 362

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Re: Change the default monitor

You might need to check if your window manager has a configuration option to "always open windows on monitor X." I'm pretty sure Openbox can do this.

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Huulivoide

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From: Finaland->Lapland->Kemi

Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 19

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Re: Change the default monitor

Im using Gnome+Compiz+Emerald anyone know hoe to do this in Compiz/Emerald?