I'm using Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.6.1 (Xfce 4.6)
I'm trying to get a dual monitor setup working. I have a vga monitor plugged in and sitting to the left of my laptop.
I want to have it so that my regular desktop sits in the laptop screen as normal and the vga acts as extra space to drag windows into. I'm almost there: i have the two spaces sitting next to each other and i can drag left and right.
The problem is that the vga monitor is the "primary" one with the taskbar in it: i want this in my laptop (ie in the right screen not the left).
Here's my current xrandr setup:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2720 x 900, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm
1440x900 59.9*+ 75.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
1280x800 60.0*+
1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 85.0 72.8 75.0 59.9
720x400 85.0
640x400 85.1
640x350 85.1
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA1 is the external vga monitor and LVDS1 is my native laptop screen. I've tried doing
xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary --right-of VGA1
which puts the screens in the correct layout, but doesn't make LVDS1 the primary, unless i'm misunderstanding what "primary" means in this context. Does primary mean "where the desktop lives"?
I've downloaded grandr and arandr and mucked about in those and haven't achieved anything there.
What's annoying is that i can get it so that LVDS1 is the primary, with the desktop etc, if i set VGA1 to be on the right of the laptop, instead of the left. So, it seems like the primary always just goes to whatever is the leftmost display.
Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file in case it's relevant:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1440x1440" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
Virtual 2464 900
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
Option "MaxTapMove" "0"
EndSection
Any advice anyone? thanks, max