[openbox] Can the right-hand side monitor be primary and the one on left-hand side secondary?

[Dana Jansens]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Luciano ES <lucmove at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've struggled with this many times. I always give up then try again then
> give up again... Never been able to pull it off.
>
> I have two monitors, which I shall refer to as M1 and M2.
>
> M1 is large and it's my main monitor. It sits right in front of me. This
> is where I want to see:
> * the LX Panel
> * my Desktop icons (managed by pcmanfm)
> * all new windows; no exceptions
> * the Alt-Tab window pager
> * a certain wallpaper, if possible
>
> On M2, I only want to see windows that I intentionally drag into it.
> Nothing else. No exceptions.
>
> M2 is smaller and it sits beside M1, to the left. It really has to be on
> the left. There is no room on my desk to place it on the right side. I
> can't just move M1 to the left to make room for M2, because my desk is not
> a regular shape, it looks like an L turned 90 degrees clockwise, so I can't
> move my chair to... OK, it doesn't matter. M2 has to be on the left. Like
> this:
>
> M2 <--> M1
>
> My problem is that whenever I configure Openbox or xrandr/arandr for that
> arrangement, M2 immediately becomes the main monitor, in charge of all the
> things I said I wanted to see in M1. I don't want that.
>
> M2 behaves like a perfect secondary monitor when I configure it to sit on
> the right. I can do that, but then dragging Windows across monitors becomes
> counterintuitive. I have to drag a window to the right and... see it pop up
> on the left. I just can't get used to it, I keep moving the mouse pointer
> into the wrong places all the time.
>
> I've found that everything also works hunky-dory if I configure M2 to be
> on the top. I actually considered placing some kind of tall support behind
> M1 so that M2 could be placed on top of it, but honestly, that's just out
> of desperation. I don't want M2 on top of M1. I want it to sit on the left,
> and make Openbox understand that it's a secondary monitor that sits on the
> left.
>
> Is that possible? How?
>

Are you looking for the --primary flag in the xrandr command?

https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xrandr.1.html


>
> TIA
>
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> Luciano ES
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