I would like my external monitor to be the primary display

[oliverjames]

I'd like my panel and launchers to display on the external monitor rather than on the laptop screen. Please can you tell me how this can be done? I'm loving this OS as my daily driver but my eyes are old and the icons / text on my laptops small high resolution screen are hard to see.

Thank you.

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi:

I am not sure if this could work for you, but ...

MENU, setup, EASY SETUP FRONT END, hardware, MULTIPLE MONITORS..

and choose your monitor

I don't know if this is what I want but I hope it helps.

Have a nice day.

[oliverjames]

@pp4mnklinux

Thanks for your reply.
No that doesn't do it, I've used Zarfly to add my external monitor but it doesn't have a script for changing the monitor status. I took a look at xorg.conf but could not find the answer there, or I may have missed something.

[FeodorF]

I'd like my panel and launchers to display on the external monitor rather than on the laptop screen. Please can you tell me how this can be done? I'm loving this OS as my daily driver but my eyes are old and the icons / text on my laptops small high resolution screen are hard to see.

Thank you.

Managing Multiple Monitors on Linux with xrandr.
https://craigwilson.blog/post/2024/2024 ... ldisplays/
This is what are you talking about - right?

[oliverjames]

I'd like my panel and launchers to display on the external monitor rather than on the laptop screen. Please can you tell me how this can be done? I'm loving this OS as my daily driver but my eyes are old and the icons / text on my laptops small high resolution screen are hard to see.

Thank you.

Managing Multiple Monitors on Linux with xrandr.
https://craigwilson.blog/post/2024/2024 ... ldisplays/
This is what are you talking about - right?

Not quite, but I see that what I'm seeking is possible with xrandr ; https://www.baeldung.com/linux/primary- ... -x-wayland. It appears that the Zarfy buttons activate xrandr scripts as indicated by your reference, however Zarfy omits the additional script to specify the primary monitor. The display settings in xfce include this function.

[oliverjames]

Having studied a few sites dealing with setting up xrandr I determined my screen names by issuing xrandr in a terminal, and came up with this:

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xrandr --output HDMI-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --output eDP-1 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of HDMI-1

However running it in a terminal gives no result so I'm clearly missing something. Can one of you clever chaps help please?