Description of problem: My currently setup is Lenovo z510 with Fujitsu 22" VGA external monitor. I use Fedora 20 with Gnome 3.10 and on Gnome Settings I choose to put off the laptop built-in display and to use as a primary monitor the external VGA monitor. The problem is that gdm shows the log-in dialog on laptop internal screen despite instead if the external monitor on VGA1. This makes logging in to X very inconvenient because I see the built-in off and on the external I see only a grey screen. I can put my password and log-in but it's frustrating. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GDM 3.10.0.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora 20 Gnome with this settings: set built-in display off and set external VGA as primary screen. 2. 3. Actual results: Log-in dialog is displayed on laptop screen (that is turned off) instead of external VGA monitor. Expected results: Log-in dialog should be displayed on the external monitor connected and set as a primary display. Additional info: The workaround showed here (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709062) worked for me. The workaround is to setup the display while logged in using GNOME settings and then copy the setup over to gdm like this: cp /home/user/.config/monitors.xml ~gdm/.config
Sorry.. I mean "The problem is that gdm shows the log-in dialog on laptop internal screen despite of the external monitor on VGA1."
Could be this upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709062
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