Primary display setting on 26.04

Budgie Desktop
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Hey there,
I just switched to 26.04 and it’s going great so far but I’m having an issue with the fact that I can’t seem to find a way to set the primary display anywhere which is not very convenient. Am I missing something ?

The active screen edges also do not seem to work weirdly

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Hi and welcome.

Last question first - snapping and resistance is handled my labwc. The configuration file is in ~/.config/budgie-desktop/labwc/rc.xml

You can add/change snapping and resistance values as per upstream labwc

e.g.

<snapping> 
  <range inner="10" outer="10" /> 
  <cornerRange>50</cornerRange> 
  <overlay> 
    <enabled>yes</enabled> 
    <delay inner="500" outer="500" />  
  </overlay> 
  <notifyClient>region</notifyClient> 
</snapping>

and

<resistance>
  <screenEdgeStrength>20</screenEdgeStrength>
</resistance>

With regards to the primary monitor - by default there isn’t a concept of primary monitor under wayland. Instead labwc / gtk3 assumes the “primary monitor” is the monitor closest to 0,0 in wdisplays. There is a bug with multimonitor rearrangements that is currently going through the SRU process and once verified will make its way into 26.04 - ETA a couple of weeks.

I’ve pushed a pseudo “primary monitor” capability upstream that hopefully will make its way into the next release after the most enthusiastic testers have looked at and we’ll then include any tweaks. This will form part of 26.10 and I will backport this for 26.04 users in the form of a “backports-stable” PPA release.

I might push an unstable version (i.e. upstream non release code) into our unstable PPA if there is any enthusiastic testers who want to take the plunge early.

3

Thanks for your answers. Disregard the snapping issue, I just found out it works! It just wasn’t displaying any visual indication, so I assumed it didn’t work and never actually released my click in the right position to test it out. Turns out it works, it just doesn’t show any visual tip, sorry about that!

While waiting for the primary monitor capability you’re talking about, is there any way to make the top bar and the dock snap to the right screen? If not I’ll just wait, but it would make things more convenient.