>Have you even tried 18.04? It's using GNOME by default, and you can select the primary screen from the monitor capplet.. is that not enough?
It's still the same. You can select primary monitor, but most applications will not respect it and will run only on the left monitor. If your primary monitor is on the right, everything works perfectly though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425000 Title: Cannot set right monitor as primary in dual monitor configuration Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in xfwm4 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Unity always considers the left monitor as the default/primary one when in a dual-monitor configuration. By this I mean that: - Desktop icons appear only on the left monitor - An opened app (eg libreoffice writer) is opened on the left screen, even if I launch it via the launcher on the right monitor The current configuration can be seen at http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/wild_oscar/Screenshotfrom2015-02-24100853.png The .config/monitors.xml file is shown below. Notice that the HDMI display (green in the photo) is set as <primary>yes</primary>. Nevertheless, this seems to be ignored - the behaviour is the one mentioned above (desktop icons on the left and writer opening on the left) . <monitors version="1"> <configuration> <clone>no</clone> <output name="VGA1"> <vendor>GSM</vendor> <product>0x4b7a</product> <serial>0x0000b13b</serial> <width>1440</width> <height>900</height> <rate>60</rate> <x>0</x> <y>0</y> <rotation>normal</rotation> <reflect_x>no</reflect_x> <reflect_y>no</reflect_y> <primary>no</primary> </output> <output name="HDMI1"> </output> <output name="HDMI2"> <vendor>GSM</vendor> <product>0x5a26</product> <serial>0x0008976f</serial> <width>1920</width> <height>1080</height> <rate>60</rate> <x>1440</x> <y>0</y> <rotation>normal</rotation> <reflect_x>no</reflect_x> <reflect_y>no</reflect_y> <primary>yes</primary> </output> <output name="VIRTUAL1"> </output> </configuration> </monitors> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1425000/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
