Basically what happens is my monitors are positioned incorrectly. So the monitor that should be to the right is to the left and vice versa. This makes using my setup quite difficult, since I have to move the mouse to the left to get to the monitor that’s physically on my right side. Can someone show me an example configuration for xorg.conf? I am using the proprietary Nvidia driver if that changes anything. I also have an Intel integrated GPU but I don’t really need an hybrid graphics setup for now, and want to use my Nvidia GPU.

  • @NicKoehler@feddit.it
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    52 years ago

    if you are on nvidia, just set them up from nvidia-settings, you can move them around and then save the configuration

  • @curioushom@lemmy.one
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    52 years ago

    You could possibly do this with xrandr where source1 and source2 are the names of your two monitors.

    xrandr --output source1 --left-of source2

    If your desktop environment has a monitor settings option, that might be more reliable.

  • @Jagger2097
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    22 years ago

    Unhelpful reply, can you physically swap the monitors?

    • filgas08OP
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      12 years ago

      The problem is one of the monitor is my laptop, and since they are different sizes and refresh rates, swapping them is not something I could do without losing something.

  • Entropy
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    22 years ago

    What desktop/window manager are you using?

    You can use xrandr, or arandr if you want a gui. Arandr let’s you output a .sh file that you can run in boot (there’s a number of ways to do this)

    • filgas08OP
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      12 years ago

      I am using plasma or awesome, it depends on what I want to do. Plasma works fine, like any other DE, but in sddm and awesome there is this problem

      Anyway, I’ll probably end up doing what you said and just write a startup script, it’s easier.

      • Entropy
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        22 years ago

        I had similar issues with sddm, never solved it though

        In awesome you should be able to put the xrandr script into your config, I’ve not used awesomewm though so don’t quote me on that

  • @lameJake@feddit.de
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    12 years ago

    X12?

    About your problem: You can configure your monitors through the nvidia-utils and then generate a xorg.conf file for these settings.

  • @naeap@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    you got also give arandr a try, as it is a GUI to xrandr and you can move your virtual monitors around a bit, until it matches the physical locations/orientations

    • filgas08OP
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      12 years ago

      i have a laptop so no

  • @bdiddy@lemmy.one
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    you don’t need to do anything in xorg. just run nvidia-settings and you can move the position of the monitors. It should have installed along with the drivers