Description of problem: I used gnome-display-properties to configure a monitor as a screen for my laptop. Switching from clone mode do dual-head worked fine by unchecking the "mirror screens" checkbox. However I realized that however I drag the monitors around in the application the screen that appears on the left side will be used as the primary screen. By that I meant that it contains the gnome-panels. I guess adding another button that allows you to choose which screen you want to be your primary screen would make things much easier. TIA! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.26.0-6.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. uncheck mirror screens 2. drag around the monitors on the screen 3. Actual results: monitor on the left side always shows gnome-panels Expected results: Be able to choose which screen shows gnome-panels Additional info:
I second this problem. I added a second monitor and found that there was no way specify which monitor should be the "primary" one.
This fault is also in Fedora 12. Laptop with docking station and external display the laptop display is always the "primary" one (=panels exist in that screen).
For me this causes 2 rather annoying problems: 1. My physical desk layout does not allow my secondary monitor to be placed to the right of my main wide screen - height adjustable keyboard next to in built shelving. This means that with every new window I open i have to turn my head left to grab the window and pull it back to my main wide screen - my neck is killing me. 2. When using a laptop with a projector plugged in it is impossible to do an OpenOffice presentation. My notes and next slide details are displayed on the primary projector and the presentation itself is displayed on the secondary laptop screen. This also makes other fullscreen applications not work properly, totem video for example, as the FS video is displayed on my laptop screen and not the projector... I am using a fully patched Fedora 12 installation with the open source ATI driver.
Shortly after i have found this bug report, i find just a workaround. Through gconf-editor set the values of "/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/monitor" and "/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/monitor" to 1 (or 0 if its already 1), so that the panels goes in the other display. The desktop icons then may you drag and drop in the other side :) Nevertheless i prefer an option within gnome-display-properties tool for this configuration.
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Still present on Fedora 13. The main taskbar/panel stays on my right monitor but all organized desktop icons and applications windows move over to the left monitor. My left monitor needs to be an auxiliary or secondary monitor. The only thing displayed on my left monitor should be the wallpaper and the content that I manually place on it.
As a workaround, you can use the following command to set your primary monitor manually: xrandr --output VGA1 --primary Replace "VGA1" with whichever output you'd like to use as primary one. xrandr without any arguments shows the output names. However, this is an issue which should be fixed for the current or next release of Fedora.
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There is still no way to select the primary monitor in Fedora 15! More and more people have more than 1 display and so it becomes more important to provide possibilities to select the primary one via the GUI. Please reopen. Thanks in advance.
Bug reopened: Check bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730618