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I can't seem to get dual monitor working properly on X11 (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by filgas08 to c/[email protected]

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Basically what happens is my monitors are positioned incorrectly. So the monitor that should be to the right is to the left and vice versa. This makes using my setup quite difficult, since I have to move the mouse to the left to get to the monitor that's physically on my right side. Can someone show me an example configuration for xorg.conf? I am using the proprietary Nvidia driver if that changes anything. I also have an Intel integrated GPU but I don't really need an hybrid graphics setup for now, and want to use my Nvidia GPU.

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[–] p5f20w18k 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What desktop/window manager are you using?

You can use xrandr, or arandr if you want a gui. Arandr let’s you output a .sh file that you can run in boot (there’s a number of ways to do this)

[–] filgas08 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using plasma or awesome, it depends on what I want to do. Plasma works fine, like any other DE, but in sddm and awesome there is this problem

Anyway, I'll probably end up doing what you said and just write a startup script, it's easier.

[–] p5f20w18k 2 points 1 year ago

I had similar issues with sddm, never solved it though

In awesome you should be able to put the xrandr script into your config, I’ve not used awesomewm though so don’t quote me on that