When connecting an external display, physically located to the left, there is no way to "extend to the left", only "extend to the right" in the Display system setting. Dragging monitors around makes the wrong display primary.
I reported this to some xfce forum and the answer was that this is not an bug, it's an feature. The XFCE recognise the primary display as the one that is closest to [0;0] mark - so you can't have non-primary display on the left or at the top (which is common preferred display configuration of my poor coworkers running windows 10).
(In reply to Andrej Kvasnica from comment #1) > I reported this to some xfce forum and the answer was that this is not an > bug, it's an feature. Interesting. I wonder what argument could be made for such a "feature" from scientific and tested UI design principles. > The XFCE recognise the primary display as the one that is closest to [0;0] > mark - so you can't have non-primary display on the left or at the top That is plain nonsense from a user interface design perspective, obviously. :-)
...and it's all about adding show-on-display-number-xy secret power to the xfce4-panel.
I +1 this actually. > Interesting. I wonder what argument could be made for such a "feature" from > scientific and tested UI design principles. Not claiming anything scientific... I just sit at the right-end of a desk and the external monitor is on the left of my laptop. I'm not sure why there seem to be such 'hard feelings' against allowing users to have this set-up, we all love XCFE for its customizability after all :) Lorenzo.
you can even imagine the user with TWO external displays having VGA1 / LAPTOP1 / DISPLAYPORT1 topology.
I'm also missing this. Always plugging in choosing extend to right and swap manually afterwards. An additional option would be very helpful and a time saver.
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