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 Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:00 am Post subject: [Solved]External Monitor - flips side on login |
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I have my HP EliteBook 8540w with an external monitor.
I recently shuffled things around and moved the second, external monitor from the left to the right side.
When I see my gdm login screen, the mouse moves between screens, as expected.
When I login, my fluxbox session swaps the monitors, left to right.
I have to run nvidia-settings, swap the screens and apply to fix things up again.
The external monitor is 1920x1200, whilst the laptop screen is 1920x1080.
I want the bottoms of each screen to 'align' so I can see the fluxbox icon bar at the bottom, hence the +120 in the xorg.conf files, shown below.
I am a loss as to why this happens.
My original (pre-move) xorg.conf was :-
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Joystick0" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "DefaultServerLayout" "DualSingleDesktop"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AutoEnableDevices" "true"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "true"
# Screen blanking, 1 hour - primarily so I don't have it blank during movie playback.
Option "BlankTime" "60"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "60"
# Option "Xinerama" "true"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"
Option "UseEvents" "true"
Option "BackingStore" "1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Joystick0"
Option "Path" "/dev/input/js0"
Driver "joystick"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LGD"
DisplaySize 344 194
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
# Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
# 13.54 x 7.59 inches
# 34.4 x 19.4 cm
# 142 Pixels per inch
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "BackingStore" "1"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 880M"
Option "BackingStore" "1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "false"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "false"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "HWcursor"
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+120, DFP-3: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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My new xorg.conf is now the following (you may notice I am attempting to setup auto docking/undocking)
| Code: | # Docked Section
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Docked"
Screen 0 "Screen0_Docked" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Joystick0" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Undocked"
Screen 0 "Screen0_Undocked" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Joystick0" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DefaultServerLayout" "Docked"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AutoEnableDevices" "true"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "true"
# Screen blanking, 1 hour - primarily so I don't have it blank during movie playback.
Option "BlankTime" "60"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "60"
# Option "Xinerama" "true"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"
Option "UseEvents" "true"
Option "BackingStore" "1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Joystick0"
Option "Path" "/dev/input/js0"
Driver "joystick"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LGD"
DisplaySize 344 194
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 880M"
Option "BackingStore" "1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0_Docked"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "false"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "false"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "HWcursor"
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+120, DFP-3: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0_Undocked"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "false"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "false"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "HWcursor"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection |
Any suggestions?
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Last edited by lyallp on Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:43 am; edited 1 time in total |
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lyallp
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Figured it out.
I had a script which I ran at login to adjust my screen positions, based on my docking status.
I had forgotten to change the screen position config files when I swapped my monitors around.
See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-887514.html
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