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I can't seem to get dual monitor working properly on X12 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically what happens is my monitors are positioned incorrectly. So the monitor that should be to the right is to the left and vice versa. This makes using my setup quite difficult, since I have to move the mouse to the left to get to the monitor that's physically on my right side. Can someone show me an example configuration for xorg.conf? I am using the proprietary Nvidia driver if that changes anything. I also have an Intel integrated GPU but I don't really need an hybrid graphics setup for now, and want to use my Nvidia GPU.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You could possibly do this with xrandr where source1 and source2 are the names of your two monitors.

xrandr --output source1 --left-of source2

If your desktop environment has a monitor settings option, that might be more reliable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

if you are on nvidia, just set them up from nvidia-settings, you can move them around and then save the configuration

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stupid question but can you swap the cables on one end?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i have a laptop so no

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X12?

About your problem: You can configure your monitors through the nvidia-utils and then generate a xorg.conf file for these settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

typo. i meant x11. anyway when I get home i'll try using nvidia-utils

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