I’m on 18.10 and I’m having trouble getting the login screen to appear on my monitor, rather than my livingroom TV. Can anyone point me to where I’m going wrong?
I’ve tried adding entries to the config files in /etc/lightdm
, as recommended here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#LightDM_displaying_in_wrong_monitor
Although the files seem to be called slightly different things here, I tried adding active-monitor=1
(and 0
), as well as display-setup-script=xrandr --output DP-0 --primary
I also tried the settings mentioned here:
https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/blob/master/README.md
I’ve tried only-on-monitor=1
(and 0
), as well as active-monitor
in the /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf
file but they don’t seem to do anything, even after a reboot.
I also found a post somewhere that recommended copying your working monitors.xml
from your home directory into /var/lib/lightdm/.config
, which I’ve done too.
Does anyone know the precise place where I should set this configuration?
Thanks a lot!
My xrandr
output looks like this (HDMI-0 is my TV, DP-0 is my monitor):
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1920x1080 60.00 + 59.94 50.00 29.97 23.98 60.05 60.00 50.04 1680x1050 59.95 1600x900 60.00 1280x1024 60.02 1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00 29.97 23.97 1152x864 75.00 1024x768 60.00 800x600 60.32 720x576 50.00 720x480 59.94 640x480 59.94 59.93 DP-0 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm 2560x1440 59.95 + 144.00* 120.00 99.95 84.98 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)