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Hi Guys,
I am having an issue with running two monitors at the moment.
If I run:
xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --right-of LVDS
(laptop being LVDS and the extra screen being VGA-0)
This works fine, my laptop screen stays as is and the desktop is extended to the extra monitor.
The problem is that my extra montior is on the left so I don't really want to be moving my mouse to the right in order to get to the left side.
If I run:
xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --left-of LVDS
This moves the Xfce panels to the left side and makes the laptop screen the extended monitor.
Does anybody know how I can extend the desktop onto the extra monitor to the left and keep all of the Xfce panels on the laptop screen?
Cheers
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xrandr has a --primary options that can set an output as primary. I haven't played with this too much, but you may want to set up a script with something like:
xrandr --primary --output LVDS
xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --left-of LVDSI'm not sure if those lines could be combined or not as I don't use xrandr too often.
HTH
Knute
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Ah ok, I'll give that a try.
Thanks.
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Hmm, it doesn't appear that adding the --primary argument makes any difference.
I am able to include it all in one command:
xrandr --output LVDS --auto --primary --right-of VGA-0
But the extra montior still gets the Xfce panels.
If I run "xrandr --output LVDS --primary" whilst the display is in this state there is no change.
Any ideas?
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The only thing that I can think of is that perhaps there is a setting in xfce that will keep your panels on a specific monitor.
I don't use xfce myself, but if it has multihead compatibility then I wouldn't be surprised if there was an option. If not, it might be worth sending a feature request to the xfce devs. http://www.xfce.org/
HTH
Knute
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