On 2020-03-02 22:49, Michael J. Baars wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought myself a brand new 27" monitor, that came with a standard > VGA cable and no HDMI cable. Apparently VGA is still considered the > standard by Philips. I would like this to be my new primary display. > > I also have a somewhat older Samsung 24" monitor, that is connected via > HDMI to the HDMI port of my computer. I would like this to be my > secondary display. > > Let boot things up... > > The grub boot menu appears on the secondary screen. Apparently the HDMI > port is considered the primary port by the computer manufacturer. > There's no way to change this in the BIOS. > > So I thought, let's make the 24" the primary and the 27" the secondary > display. I can always buy an extra 5m VGA cable to replace my new 5m > HDMI cable. > > Let boot things up... > > The grub boot menu appears on the primary screen. So far so good. > Waiting for the login prompt, and yes, there it is... > > on the secondary screen :) > > And yes, I've double checked the settings under Devices->Displays and > made sure that the Samsung 24" is the Primary Display. > > Any thoughts? >
I have no way to test this for you since I don't have a bare metal setup with multiple monitors and GNOME. However, have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Setup_default_monitor_settings -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
