On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 10:04 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 7:55 AM Michael J. Baars < > mjbaars1977.fedora-us...@cyberfiber.eu> wrote: > > > > The grub boot menu appears on the primary screen. So far so good. > > > > Waiting for the login prompt, and yes, there it is... > > > > > > > > on the secondary screen :) > > > > The settings from after login will only control what happens after > the X server has started. So this is useful for declaring where you > want your panels; that is the "Primary" display. > > Which screen has the login prompt is the function of the greeter. In > Fedora by default that is GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager?). I looked > through a page I found searching for "GDM configuration" and didn't > immediately see anything that would allow configuration of which > screen the login prompt appears on, but I could have missed it. It's > also possible that other greeters (SDM and LDM are available) might > be able to configure this, but I didn't pursue it that far. > > For the record, I have a KVM switch that allows multiple computers to > connect via VGA to my smaller "secondary" monitor, while the larger > "primary" monitor has a desktop and laptop connected to it by HDMI. I > have a desktop that has an Nvidia PCIE card with DVI and HDMI output > ports. The DVI port uses an adapter and a VGA cable to connect to the > switch. On this machine, the grub menu and the greeter login appear > on the VGA monitor. Once logged in, the panel and desktop icons > appear on the HDMI monitor, as that is what I configured in the > Display settings. The Dell laptop, on the other hand, only has a VGA > port when it is in the dock, and I connect that to the VGA monitor. > The dock also has an HDMI port as does the laptop itself. On this > machine, the grub menu and the greeter login both appear on the HDMI > monitor, as does the Gnome panel. > > I use the secondary monitor without workspaces (configurable in the > tweak tool workspaces setting), which means I can put windows there > that will remain visible even when I change workspaces on the > primary, but by default it uses both monitors for each workspace. > > --Greg
Hi Greg, I remember digging into the documentation of GDM too a while ago. I remember that a lot of the documentation seemed incomplete and the configuration files non-responsive and that I ended up in the manual of GTK+ much sooner than expected. In the past, things were always done though /etc/xorg.conf. Not always as easy to configure, but it did work, at least the command line parameter --geometry did. Nice feature, when you want to dump system journals to a logging monitor in real-time for example. I remember there was something in the documentation about the login prompt too, but it was not the problem at hand at the time and even if it was, I haven't been able to find a single (and properly documented) configuration file that responded to any input at all. Mischa. > > _______________________________________________users mailing list -- > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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