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deltamalloc
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 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:28 pm Post subject: Screens are reversed in the login manager? |
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I have two monitors, the displays are reversed in the login manager but display correctly in the window manager (after logging in). What causes this?
Monitor1 is left of monitor2 after I have logged in.
Before logging in, monitor1 is right of monitor2!
This wasn't a problem before until a recent world update, which updated xorg-server.
The way I'm specifying the orientation of the monitors is by specifying in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d:
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Option "LeftOf" "DFP10"
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In the "Monitor" section.
I'm using slim as my login manager, same as before.
slim: 1.3.6-r5
xorg-server: 1.18.4 |
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Zucca
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Location: Rasi, Finland
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 10:28 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if slim supports scripting or running scripts/programs at certain events, but I managed to overcome that in LightDM by writing a script.
I went this way because for some reason sometimes the port names change. Also I've never quite got the hang of configuring X via its own config files propely. At least I leave monitor placements in a display to scripts running xrandr.
If slim does not support, then I guess there could be a way to run a script before slim starts but after X has started.
EDIT01: You could first just check if the monitor connector names are still the same and compare them to ones you have in your X configuration: | Code: | | xrandr | awk '/^[[:alnum:]-]+ connected/ {if ($1 != "Screen") print $1}' |
The code above lists connectors that are attached to any monitors.
Here's some picks from my bash script:
Function to list physical display connectors. You need this code to run any latter code in this post.
Run "list-monitors" to list all.
Run "list-monitors connected" to list connectors that have monitor attached.
Run "list-monitors disconnected" to list connectors that doesn't have monitor attached.
| Code: | function list-monitors {
# first argument to this function should only have values "connected", "disconnected", "" or NULL.
xrandr | awk '/^[[:alnum:]-]+ '$1'/ {if ($1 != "Screen") print $1}'
} |
After that you can rearrange your monitors. Here's how it is in my setup: | Code: | # 'primary' is your primary monitor.
# Here I run command to find it and grab the first Display Port connected monitor.
# You can just set it static also like:
#primary='DisplayPort-0'
primary="$(list-monitors connected | grep -m 1 'DisplayPort')"
# xrandr with combined bash and awk magic.
# Turns off all disconnected ports and then picks up the $primary and sets it primary.
# Finally gets first HDMI connected monitor via "list-monitors connected | grep -m 1 'HDMI'"
# and sets it left of the primary monitor.
xrandr --display "$DISPLAY" \
$(awk '{print "--output " $1 " --off"}' <<< "$(list-monitors disconnected)") \
--output "$primary" --auto --primary \
--output "$(list-monitors connected | grep -m 1 'HDMI')" --auto --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x120 --left-of "$primary" |
You can remove the | Code: | | $(awk '{print "--output " $1 " --off"}' <<< "$(list-monitors disconnected)") \ |
-line in most cases, but it shouldn't hurt if it's there either.
In short: Try to run xrandr before slim starts or via slim. ;)
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Roman_Gruber
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Location: Austro Bavaria
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 10:35 am Post subject: |
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I have the same issue with slim and my external monitor.
I have no idea why slim do not use the internal lvds display of my notebook to ask me for a login prompt.
To make matters worse, the external monitor is running with the wrong specs by slim and is black at the point when I want to enter my passphrase and user. I do not want to create an xorg.conf for that because its an external monitor and when i plug it in after i logged in X, i can easily set it up with nvidia-settings and it works than. |
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