Salix on Wrong Monitor and Pannel On Wrong Monitor

[happydog500]

I have my computer hooked up to my monitor by DVI. My second Monitor is VGA to my HD-TV. Salix starts up on the wrong monitor, so I have to unhook the TV to boot up. In Mint 18, when I hook the TV after boot, it works. In Salix, after boot, I hook up the TV, the panel on the bottom and the icons switches to the TV and not the computer monitor.
I can see the computer background (smaller) over the TV desktop background that sticks outside the smaller computer desktop.

A different subject, no linux distro starts up on the default monitor (Only Windows does). Mint 18 will work after I boot up. I want to run Salix, but it doesn't have a "default" setting for the monitor for my computer.

What can I do?

Thank you,
Chris.

[gapan]

Post the output of the

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xrandr

command.

[happydog500]

Love your dog!!!

Thank you for replying. Hope we can get this figured out.

The output of xrandr with one and both monitor and TV hooked up is.

Just one monitor hooked up.

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one[~]$ xrandr 
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm 
   1680x1050      59.9*+ 
   1600x1200      60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1440x900       75.0     59.9  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1280x720       60.0  
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
one[~]$ 

Here is with both computer monitor and TV hooked up.

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one[~]$ xrandr 
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 
VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
   1920x1080      59.9 + 
   1280x800       59.8  
   1280x720       60.0  
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3  
   640x480        75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm 
   1680x1050      59.9*+ 
   1600x1200      60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1440x900       75.0     59.9  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1280x720       60.0  
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
one[~]$  

[gapan]

Try this:

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xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080 --primary --output DVI-0 --mode 1680x1050 --left-of VGA-0

You can change --left-of to --right-of, --above or --below, depending on how your screens are arranged. If it works, we'll see how to make it permanent.

And please use code blocks next time you post code/output. It makes everything much more readable. I edited your post for you this time.

[happydog500]

Try this:

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xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x1080 --primary --output DVI-0 --mode 1680x1050 --left-of VGA-0

You can change --left-of to --right-of, --above or --below, depending on how your screens are arranged. If it works, we'll see how to make it permanent.

And please use code blocks next time you post code/output. It makes everything much more readable. I edited your post for you this time.

Wow!! that was cool!! It worked really good. Everything snapped into place. Everything went on the right monitor, in the right place. Nice job!
I feel comfortable installing it now. I'll post back after I do and we can hopefully get it permanent.

Thank you for replying,
Chris.

P.S. Sorry, I didn't know what code blocks was. Been reading as much about Salix as I can. Would of not guessed Slackware people would be hostel to Salix as I've found on the web.

[happydog500]

Post the output of the

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xrandr

command.

Could you please be specific, and tell me how you knew that? I look in my Linux books, on line, and don't see it anywhere (not talking about searching "xrandr" but searching commands).
I want to know how you learned that.

Thank you,
Chris.

[gapan]

xrandr has been around forever. I have no idea how I learned about it in the first place. First time I used it must have been almost 20 years ago. There's even a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandR

[mimosa]

xrandr is the go-to tool for such problems. If you didn't know that, you would probably find it out by googling your problem and "linux". Working out how to use xrandr is probably harder, but again, searching will turn up plenty of ad-hoc recipes to try.

[ChuangTzu]

yes, xrandr has been around for a long time. it is still favored in minimal/light distros and do-it-yourself distros.

[ChuangTzu]

Would of not guessed Slackware people would be hostel to Salix as I've found on the web.

Not all Slackware users are hostile to Salix.