Public bug reported:
After upgrading to 16.04, I am unable to choose the right monitor as
"primary" using Unity. Before, I could select the primary monitor using,
e.g., "xrandr --output DP-1 --primary", but now it seems that
"something" is reverting this setting immediately, resulting in screen
flickering for a few seconds and afterwards the left monitor is the
primary again.
I have also tried to edit the file ".config/monitors.xml" and change the
<primary> tag content to "no" for the left and "yes" for the right
screen, but this results in (after running the xrandr command) a black
screen with some flickering for a while before Xorg finally crashes, and
I am unable to log in (same black screen with flickering and X crashing)
until I edit the file to have the primary monitor on the left again.
I am using nvidia drivers (currently 370.23, also experienced the same
problem with 367.35 and 364.19), but I am not sure if that is relevant.
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Unable to choose primary monitor
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