Setting primary monitor in XFCE

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I have to monitors:

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|VGA-1| |HDMI-1|
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for some reason VGA-1 defaults to the primary monitor. Now this is what I have tried to fix this:

  1. Go to settings edit and set primary on HDMI-1 to True
  2. This: Fedora primary monitor selection
    Now it seems it did a trick since HDMI-1 is primary according to "xrandr –current". However the panel is still on the left (VGA-1) monitor and I'm not sure that my HDMI-1 is primary at all.

Is this a bug or I'm doing something wrong here?

Best Answer

Right click the panel, go to 'Panel preferences'. You'll have a dropdown for 'Output'. Change this from 'Automatic' to the display you want it to show up on. By default it will be on the left-most monitor.

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