Monitor Preferences does not have an option to set the primary monitor
Bug #584372 reported by
Thiago
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #216144: gnome-display-properties should allow the primary screen to be chosen.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| GNOME Settings Daemon |
Invalid
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Unknown
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| gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The Monitor Preferences does not have an option to set which monitor is the primary. I can set it with xrandr, like this:
xrandr --output DVI-I_2/digital --primary
But this does not work for a "normal" user. It would be very useful to have this option, because some gnome apps opens by default on the primary monitor, like the panel for example. If the user have plugged the monitors on the graphics card on the "wrong" order, the panel would open on the "wrong" monitor. It can be dragged, but it would be annoying to have to drag each app.
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| Thiago (thiago-sayao) wrote | #1 |
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| Vish (vish) wrote | #2 |
| affects: | hundredpapercuts → gnome-settings-daemon |
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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| Thiago (thiago-sayao) wrote | #3 |
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| Vish (vish) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
| status: | New → Unknown |
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
| status: | Unknown → Invalid |
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