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Bug 696898 - Adding a "primary monitor" checkbox to the display settings app
Adding a "primary monitor" checkbox to the display settings app
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 636216
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-30 11:31 UTC by Nicolas
Modified: 2013-03-31 22:08 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nicolas 2013-03-30 11:31:34 UTC 
Hello,

When using a multi-monitor setup, there are no way to specify the primary monitor in the display settings GUI. After searching on the net, I read that we had to change that value in ~/.config/monitors.xml

Because it is a basic and important feature for a multi-monitor setup, it should be available in the display settings app.

Best regards,
Nicolas

ps : 
- searching on the net will show you how much people are trying to do it.
- other desktops/OS propose that feature (Windows, MacOS, KDE)
- propriatary drivers also propose that feature from their own settings GUI
Comment 1 Nicolas 2013-03-30 14:18:01 UTC 
After creating this feature request, I saw that there is indeed a way to do it by draggin the black tag to any monitor that will become the primary one :
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35149/linux-mint-gnome-shell-with-dual-monitor-switch-main-screen

Honnestly, except if we know it, it is absolutely not intuitive (which is one goal of gnome-shell) nor clear at all (as said in that stackexchange thread).

The checkbox seems to me the most clear option.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2013-03-31 22:08:24 UTC 
See https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Displays for a new design for this panel that addresses this issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 636216 ***