On 25/11/15 22:31, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 06:54 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is[...]But gdm3 has decided it is going to come up on the secondary monitor.First answer from here says to copy your correctly set up ~/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm3/.config/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/11738/force-gdm-login-screen-to-the-primary-monitor
TL;DR I tried that and it doesn't workI actually looked at monitors.xml and it seemed to have loads of different configurations in it from all the previous combinations of displays I had used. But it didn't have any entries for the current configuration.
However, I went into system settings and moved the displays about a bit, saved the result, and then repeated the process and moved them back to the correct positions. After that I did have a section in monitors.xml.
I have now copied this to /var/lib/gdm3/.config/, to /etc/gdm3/.config and to /etc/gdm3 and none of them seem to change a thing.
-- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk