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Bug 601026 - Add ability to select primary monitor
Add ability to select primary monitor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 588041
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-06 22:31 UTC by Fausto Piovesan
Modified: 2010-02-10 00:12 UTC
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Description Fausto Piovesan 2009-11-06 22:31:20 UTC 
The user should be able to configure which monitor is the primary on GNOME Shell (the one which displays the top menu bar and activities sidebar). This could be implemented as some kind of flag on the gnome-display-properties application or somewhere on the GNOME Shell itself.

Use case:

A laptop user may want to configure an external monitor as the primary display (especially when you have a big external monitor and tiny laptop monitor), but on other situations this same user may want the laptop monitor to be the primary (E.G. if a projector is connected on the external port).
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2010-02-10 00:12:17 UTC 
This is really bug 588041 (which is about implementing this in gnome-display-properties).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 588041 ***