[AuckLUG] Specify the Main Monitor with TwinView

Fuad Tabba fuad at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Jul 13 11:44:38 NZST 2007


Thanks Liz. Editing xorg.conf as you said did the trick.

Cheers,
/Fuad

On 7/13/07, Liz <liz at zeald.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 13 July 2007 10:56:48 Fuad Tabba wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently got a new monitor, and since my nvidia adapter allows for
> dual
> > monitors, one VGA connector and another DVI connector. Anyway, I got
> > TwinView to work, that was easy. The problem is whenever I'm in
> twinview,
> > the main screen is the VGA one rather than the DVI one. As you might
> > imagine, I'd like to have the DVI one be the main one (with all the task
> > bars, menus, etc...), since it's newer, bigger and better.
> >
> > Anyone knows of a way to make this possible? Or a way to specify which
> > display kde (kdm) uses by default?
> >
> in your x config, you name them Screen 0 and Screen 1 (or 1 and 2)
> The way you initialize them in the Screens config will determine which is
> where and first/second.
>
> KDE also has xinerama support so you can make trhe task bar go left/right
> or
> accross both easily just with right clicking on desktop and
> going 'configure' :)
>
> Liz
>
> > Cheers,
> > /Fuad
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