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Timeline for Setting primary monitor in XFCE?

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Sep 4, 2020 at 15:43 comment added Lion Changing this from Automatic to Primary works for me. In automatic mode it was on the primary screen with 2 screens attached, but when attaching the 3rd screen and changing settings on it, the bar jumped to the new (non-primary) screen. This is not the case when setting to Primary (which was my expected default behavior).
Apr 12, 2017 at 19:24 comment added andrej In fact this got worse when connecting third monitor (left is for VGA, middle is for notebook screen and right is for DisplayPort - the left/top display always grabs the Panel.
Apr 12, 2017 at 19:16 comment added andrej Popping up is not related to primary/secondary/tertiary display.
Apr 12, 2017 at 12:54 comment added phemmer For me, windows pop up on whatever display the mouse cursor is on. I forget what controls this though.
Oct 30, 2016 at 16:38 comment added andrej This works only for panel placement, not for primary display selection. Primary display is the display where were all the windows before the additional display was connected.
Aug 10, 2014 at 10:05 vote accept Granitosaurus
Aug 10, 2014 at 3:14 history answered phemmer CC BY-SA 3.0