Dear lazyweb,
Since a day or two, I've got myself a nice new monitor. It's positively huge, which makes it useful even alone.
There is, however, one little problem. When I call xrandr --output LVDS --right-of VGA, my laptop's display is situated at the top right of the monitor. This is not what I'm after; I'd much rather have it at the bottom right of the monitor, since
- that's where it is, physically, and
- otherwise the taskbar of the window manager that I'm using will extend into oblivion, well below the visual part of my laptop's builtin monitor.
Hints as to how one should fix this are more than welcome.
xrandr's simple positioning options (--right-of, --left-of, --above, and --below) always line up the top or left edges of the monitors as appropriate. However, you can tell xrandr exactly what you want: xrandr --output LVDS --pos $((VGA_width))x$((VGA_height - LVDS_height))
You might also try arandr, from the package of the same name; it provides a graphical interface to xrandr which lets you drag monitor images around, and it can generate scripts which recreate a given configuration.
Hi Wouter,
did you try to use xrandr's --pos switch? Currently you should see something like this in xrandr output: LVDS connected 1440x900+1680+0
When calling xrandr, try xrandr --output LVDS --pos 1680x300 (adjust numbers as needed)
Regards Evgeni
I absolutely definitely do not want 'modern desktop niceties', thank you very much. One of the main reasons I'm using IceWM today is because GNOME sucks so much and kept getting in my way. Never the less, thanks for the suggestion