Setting primary monitor in XFCE?

Question

I have two 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?

Solution

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.

Comments

[andrej]

This works only for panel placement, not for primary display selection. Primary display is the display where were all the windows before the additional display was connected.

[phemmer]

For me, windows pop up on whatever display the mouse cursor is on. I forget what controls this though.

[andrej]

Popping up is not related to primary/secondary/tertiary display.

[andrej]

In fact this got worse when connecting third monitor (left is for VGA, middle is for notebook screen and right is for DisplayPort - the left/top display always grabs the Panel.

[Lion]

Changing this from Automatic to Primary works for me. In automatic mode it was on the primary screen with 2 screens attached, but when attaching the 3rd screen and changing settings on it, the bar jumped to the new (non-primary) screen. This is not the case when setting to Primary (which was my expected default behavior).