desktop-p-choosing-a-main-display-on-dual-heads
On another computer i got a nvidia-card which give this opportunity (although it does not work that good)
I would like this option on Monitor Preferences too. It seems like the left screen is set as default main, although my panel stays on the one to the right.
I noticed this, let's call it the preferred right screen, when i switched the extra screen to the left side.
I think this will be more of an issue as the use of multiple screens are more widespread among users.
(I have no idea where to propose this for sprint? so I just have a guess - sorry if I put it the wrong place)
changed the name to "desktop-
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Hi,
This is not currently being scheduled for UDS as the name doesn't match
a track.
Changing the name to desktop-
will make it get scheduled.
Thanks,
James
This is actually an issue limited to the nVidia binary drivers. All other drivers support XRandR 1.3, which means that you can use the display capplet, which allows you to set the primary display. The nVidia drivers only support Xinerama for querying multihead information. With Xinerama, the first display returned from XineramaQuerySc
It's possible to manipulate the Xinerama display order by setting the NV_CTRL_
XNVCTRLSetStr
So all of the plumbing infrastructure is there to mark a display as primary with nvidia-settings; somebody just needs to hook up the UI to allow it.
- broder
This topic is being tracked at <https:/
