Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

External LCD monitor is always the main monitor

Bug #292521 reported by lugburz on 2008-11-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #216144: gnome-display-properties should allow the primary screen to be chosen. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Declined for Intrepid by Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

I'm using a Intel 945 graphics card o laptop. I used gnome-display-properties to switch-on the external monitor and it changed my xorg.conf file as in attached. The external monitor is always the main display, the one with the gnome bars. Instead I like to set the external monitor as secondary display, where i.e. to move totem window.

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lugburz (lugburz) wrote on 2008-11-02:

xorg.con file generated by gnome-display-properties Edit (226 bytes, text/plain)

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Joost Timmerman (imeelvanjoost) wrote on 2009-02-20:

I thought I had this bug as well, but for me the solution was very very simple. I just dragged my gnome-bars to the desired screen. These settings are remembered after a reboot (have not tried rebooting without secondary monitor though) so for me it is okay.

Tim McNamara (tim-clicks) on 2009-05-12

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ubuntu → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-05-12:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Invalid