On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> On 03/06/18 08:45 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I have a laptop that I frequently use with an external monitor, but on >> the lefthand side. Now by default, XFCE assumes that I want the monitor >> to be on the right, and the top of the laptop to be even with the top of >> the external monitor. I would love it if there's a way to get it to >> assume I want the external monitor on the left with the laptop >> bottom-justified to that instead. What's the best way to accomplish this? >> > > Check out the xrandr man page. I have two dissimilar monitors on my > desktop and ensure that they're properly set up as follows: > > xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1080 > xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1280x1024 --right-of DVI-I-1 > > That --right-of parameter tells it that my smaller monitor is to the right > of my larger one - I could use --left-of if I wanted it on the other side. > I'm not sure how you'd do justification, though. I was hoping for something along the lines of getting XFCE's settings to cooperate on that, like, remember which side it should be on persistently. This is a monitor that gets plugged and unplugged regularly, not one that stays permanently attached.
