<div dir="ltr">You can add the commands needed to setup the displays as you want, to either your .xinitrc or an autostart script (depends on how your session is started).<div><br></div><div>I even wrote a script that arranges monitors in different ways, so that I can more easily call it from my start session scripts, or from an openbox menu.</div><div><a href="http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/software/#X">http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/software/#X</a></div><div><br></div><div>I wrote it because I didn't want to have to be looking up the weird monitor names all the time, just arrange them in different ways.</div><div><br></div><div>However remember if you have a display above another, it is top one that will have window coordinates for 0,0 </div><div><br></div><div>Hmmm I have not really looked at setting resolutions of the monitors. My montiors are all the same size (pixel wise)</div><div><br></div><div>When you re-arrange monitors, the windows do not change positions, so if you have a window at say 100,100, it will appear on what ever monitor has those coordinates after you re-arrange. If windows or even the window manager is are opened/started before monitors are arranged, the display may not be sized correctly and that can effect window positions or icon arrangements.</div><div><br></div><div>Basically you must automate yoru monitor setup to get it how you want it BEFORE the other applications are started.</div><div>This can take some trial and error.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A lot of the more modern applications don't allow users to set window positions on start up. If a window does not specify a position the window manager will typically set the position. For example Open box may place it in what it thinks is a large open area (or the largest area is none is large enough.</div><div><br></div><div>This problem is why I don't like using "autostart" scripts. Instead I install the package... "xorg-x11-xinit-session" which enables you on login to select a to start session using a ".xinirtc" script (very old school). That means I can then start applications using my one script in the exact order I want.</div><div><br></div><div>As I launch applications using a script I can then use other tools to re-position windows, and iconify them on startup. For example look at the "xwin_find" script in the previous link. Its built in documentation gives an example of starting, resizing and re-positioning the "firefox" window. It lets me launch a application, wait for it to appear, then modify it.</div><div><br></div><div>I could do this in openbox, but openbox makes its changes every time an application starts, where I only want to do it when I login.</div><div><br></div><div>For examples of openbox modifying an application see</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Luciano ES <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lucmove@gmail.com" target="_blank">lucmove@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:58 +1000, Anthony Thyssen wrote:<br>
<br>
> The problem is actually more lower level than that. The primary<br>
> positions are using X server zero coordinates. As such the primary<br>
> monitor for applications is typically the top left monitor.<br>
><br>
> This is nothing to do with XRandR or Openbox, but a problem with X<br>
> windows in that displays can't properly use negative coordinates (it<br>
> means something different when a negative coordinate is given to<br>
> applications)<br>
><br>
> I myself wanted my primary monitor (laptop screen) below my secondary<br>
> one (large rmonitor well above the laptop. I couldn't do it.<br>
><br>
> I have similar problems with multi-media computers where the laptop<br>
> (multi-media center) is to the right of the large (secondary) screen<br>
> that is to display the videos being watched.<br>
><br>
> The only solutions I can see is to set up the display in reverse,<br>
> (primary on left), and then use some weird mouse warping application<br>
> to warp mouse movements from the 'correct' sides of the display. Not<br>
> perfect but should work, but I have no working solution.<br>
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<br>
Thanks, Anthony. Very informative.<br>
<br>
I decided to put the second monitor on top. I find that a little less counterintuitive.<br>
<br>
But there are still a bunch of problems.<br>
<br>
* For starters, the whole thing will not survive a reboot. It all becomes one big mess.<br>
* The second monitor takes on the duties of the first monitor.<br>
* The second monitor always has the wrong resolution until I add it manually with xrandr.<br>
* Both monitors have a desktop area, with icons. I had never seen that happen!<br>
* Windows will no longer remember that usual, correct position, even if most of them have their position forced by openbox.<br>
* The top position is all wrong. I open arandr and discover that the two screens are superimposed rather than one on top of the other. I have to adjust it back manually on randr.<br>
* The desktop area still looks all messy. In fact, my efforts are useless until I turn off the second monitor, turn it on again, then I can rearrange everything with some hope of putting everything back in its place.<br>
* After everything is in place, many new windows still ignore the "force position" directives in my lxde-rc.xml file and pop up wherever the heck they want.<br>
* With every new rearrangement, osdsh decides to position itself in some new random spot.<br>
<br>
:-(<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Luciano ES<br>
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