Desktop focus and all windows move to internal laptop screen despite the primary flag on external monitor after enabling laptop screen again using xrandr command or Super-P
How to keep open windows and desktop focus on primary external monitor for dual screen?
Example:
TOP - external monitor VGA-0 --primary
BOTTOM - internal laptop screen LVDS-0
Desktop panel and open windows stay on the primary external monitor, good.
Desired:
TOP - internal laptop screen LVDS-0
BOTTOM - external monitor VGA-0 --primary
Enable dual screen layout with laptop internal screen at top but secondary and external monitor at bottom but primary. Desktop panel and open windows move to the secondary laptop monitor despite the primary flag on external monitor (undesired).
Command:
xranxr --output LVDS-0 --off
Disable the internal laptop screen and only use primary external monitor.
xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --primary --below LVDS-0 --output LVDS-0 --auto crtc 0: 1280x1024 60.02 +0+900 "VGA-0" crtc 1: 1440x900 60.00 +0+0 "LVDS-0"
Re-enable the internal laptop screen and use along external as desired.
inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G96M [GeForce 9650M GT]
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz, 1440x900@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 9650M GT/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.102
lshw -C display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G96M [GeForce 9650M GT]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:35 memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fa000000-fbffffff ioport:cc00(size=128) memory:fde80000-fdefffff
Resources:
https://superuser.com/questions/414646/xfce-cant-set-primary-monitor-in-xrandr
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/290346/xfce4-display-settings-why-is-there-no-extend-to-the-left/350670#350670
Dual monitor applications opening on wrong monitor
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8328
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6440
and many more...
