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A workaround in Cinnamon is to change is which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I I learned today that gnomecinnamon-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this. It shows the two monitors and a black bar at the top of one of them -- that bar symbolizes "first" (I guess it represents a panel at the top of the monitor). If you click on

NOTE: You can also access this barvia (as opposed to the monitor center) you can drag the bar to the other monitor, without changing the geometric arrangement of the monitors.cinnamon-settings too!

In Cinnamon v2.x

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(We are not the only ones struggling to find this setting: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636216 )

A workaround in Cinnamon is to change is which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I learned today that gnome-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this. It shows the two monitors and a black bar at the top of one of them -- that bar symbolizes "first" (I guess it represents a panel at the top of the monitor). If you click on this bar (as opposed to the monitor center) you can drag the bar to the other monitor, without changing the geometric arrangement of the monitors.

(We are not the only ones struggling to find this setting: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636216 )

A workaround in Cinnamon is to change which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I learned today that cinnamon-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this.

NOTE: You can also access this via cinnamon-settings too!

In Cinnamon v2.x

   ss#1

   ss#2

(We are not the only ones struggling to find this setting: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636216 )

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A workaround in Cinnamon is to change is which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I learned today that gnome-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this. It shows the two monitors and a black bar at the top of one of them -- that bar symbolizes "first" (I guess it represents a panel at the top of the monitor). If you click on this bar (as opposed to the monitor center) you can drag the bar to the other monitor, without changing the geometric arrangement of the monitors.

(We are not the only ones struggling to find this setting: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636216 )

A workaround in Cinnamon is to change is which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I learned today that gnome-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this. It shows the two monitors and a black bar at the top of one of them -- that bar symbolizes "first" (I guess it represents a panel at the top of the monitor). If you click on this bar (as opposed to the monitor center) you can drag the bar to the other monitor, without changing the geometric arrangement of the monitors.

A workaround in Cinnamon is to change is which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I learned today that gnome-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this. It shows the two monitors and a black bar at the top of one of them -- that bar symbolizes "first" (I guess it represents a panel at the top of the monitor). If you click on this bar (as opposed to the monitor center) you can drag the bar to the other monitor, without changing the geometric arrangement of the monitors.

(We are not the only ones struggling to find this setting: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636216 )

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A workaround in Cinnamon is to change is which monitor is the first/secondary, then the panel will follow. I learned today that gnome-control-center's tool for screen settings allows you to do this. It shows the two monitors and a black bar at the top of one of them -- that bar symbolizes "first" (I guess it represents a panel at the top of the monitor). If you click on this bar (as opposed to the monitor center) you can drag the bar to the other monitor, without changing the geometric arrangement of the monitors.