Michael, 1: Search for some "monitors.xml" - I have it here in ~/.config, and then try move it to a different place. Reboot, or simply logging out/in of your desktop might be enough. 2: Did you try to press the key combo "Win key - p", repeatedly? I think I remember Gnome to cycle through attached screens/monitors a few years ago with that combo, just like Windows does, IIRC. "Win(dows) key", or Mod4, is what xev recognizes as "Super_L" here. Be careful with 2: You might end up with dark monitors -- ssh to your machine, or at least make sure you can use sysctrl to shutdown your machine more or less safely. Or maybe some tty is still usable ... If all that does not work, xrandr might be your friend to set up your monitors - but Im not sure, that's what Linux users today might like to fiddle with ... ;) Good luck! Wolfgang On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 03:49:01PM +0100, Michael J. Baars wrote:
Hi, I just bought myself a brand new 27" monitor, that came with a standard VGA cable and no HDMI cable. Apparently VGA is still considered the standard by Philips. I would like this to be my new primary display. I also have a somewhat older Samsung 24" monitor, that is connected via HDMI to the HDMI port of my computer. I would like this to be my secondary display. Let boot things up... The grub boot menu appears on the secondary screen. Apparently the HDMI port is considered the primary port by the computer manufacturer. There's no way to change this in the BIOS. So I thought, let's make the 24" the primary and the 27" the secondary display. I can always buy an extra 5m VGA cable to replace my new 5m HDMI cable. Let boot things up... The grub boot menu appears on the primary screen. So far so good. Waiting for the login prompt, and yes, there it is... on the secondary screen :) And yes, I've double checked the settings under Devices->Displays and made sure that the Samsung 24" is the Primary Display. Any thoughts? Regards, Mischa. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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