On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 14:55, Michael J. Baars < [email protected]> 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? > > Regards, > Mischa. > > if run xrandr in a terminal, does it tell you which one is primary? Normally on the login screen, one would expect it to appear on the primary first, but it should follow the mouse . . . (I'm not 100% sure gdm does that however)
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