On 17/5/23 12:04, Gottfried wrote:
I am wondering why you can with your laptops in XFCE put monitors on
top of each other,
but I can’t do that.
It simply doesn’t work.
Sorry for the late response, I'm also not exactly sure why it does work
for me but not for you. There are many moving parts, starting from the
hardware, drivers and all the way up to how we install our packages.
Since I'm no expert (I wish I had Felix Lechner's knowledge of the X
internals), I tend to keep things I don't know well as close to
"default" as I can while trying to adapt them to my needs.
I have attached my /etc/config.scm, maybe you can find some relevant
differences to yours.
One thing in particular that I've experienced with Guix is that some
packages behave differently if you install them into your user profile
vs. your system configuration and I had to move some packages into
/etc/config.scm for them to integrate properly into my desktop environment.
Here is a screenshot of my Display settings page that can be found
inside the Settings Manager (xfce4-settings-manager):
It shows both screens and how they are located relative to each other -
I simply dragged the external monitor where I wanted it to be. I never
had to touch xrandr Felix mentioned by hand directly, so I guess I'm
lucky that it "just works" for me.
Do you have that settings page? If so, what does it show?
In the past it has happened to me sometimes that the switch next to the
drop-down list of screens on the top-right is turned "off" for a screen
for some reason and I had to turn it on, also I sometimes had to disable
the "Mirror displays" checkbox so both screens work independently from
each other.
Hope that helps!
Kind regards,
Christian
;; This is an operating system configuration generated
;; by the graphical installer.
(use-modules (gnu)
(gnu packages linux)
(gnu packages file-systems)
(gnu packages disk)
(gnu packages mtools)
(gnu packages audio)
(gnu packages pulseaudio)
(gnu packages gnome)
(gnu packages cups))
(use-service-modules
cups
desktop
networking
ssh
xorg)
(operating-system
(locale "en_AU.utf8")
(timezone "Australia/Adelaide")
(keyboard-layout
(keyboard-layout "us" "altgr-intl"))
(host-name "gelil14")
(users (cons* (user-account
(name "chris")
(comment "Christian Gelinek")
(group "users")
(home-directory "/home/chris")
(supplementary-groups
'("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video" "lp")))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages
(append
(list
(specification->package "nss-certs")
cups
dosfstools
mtools
ntfs-3g
exfat-utils
fuse-exfat
bluez
bluez-alsa
pulseaudio
gvfs
)
%base-packages))
(services
(append
(list (service xfce-desktop-service-type)
(service openssh-service-type)
(service cups-service-type
(cups-configuration
(extensions
(list
hplip-minimal
cups-filters))
(web-interface? #t)
(server-name host-name)
(host-name-lookups #t)
(default-paper-size "A4")
)
)
(set-xorg-configuration
(xorg-configuration
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))
%desktop-services))
(bootloader
(bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
(targets (list "/boot/efi"))
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(swap-devices
(list (swap-space
(target
(uuid "872f65aa-e7eb-4ee8-9ad1-019a0600adf3")))))
(file-systems
(cons* (file-system
(mount-point "/")
(device
(uuid "3631ef38-b72d-481e-a305-c4c83a15fcd6"
'ext4))
(type "ext4"))
(file-system
(mount-point "/boot/efi")
(device (uuid "1E54-9AF7" 'fat32))
(type "vfat"))
(file-system
(mount-point "/home")
(device
(uuid "ad8dee50-3906-4382-bba9-6f09505d475d"
'ext4))
(type "ext4"))
%base-file-systems)))
