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Title: Login Window on Wrong Screen at Startup
Post by: ssign on February 14, 2020, 08:20:46 AM
Hi everyone,
   I have multiple monitors and I've reversed the primary monitor. On startup, my login screen stays on the other monitor (but if I move my mouse to the other screen it follows it). On Ubuntu LTS (what I was running before this) there was a fix to copy the monitors.xml file to another location and it would be fixed, but I've noticed that that file doesn't exist here. Any ideas?

This is the fix from Ubuntu:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2409072
Title: Re: Login Window on Wrong Screen at Startup
Post by: Jerry on February 14, 2020, 02:08:39 PM
Ubuntu uses Gnome and GDM, we use XFCE. So try:

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/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
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active-monitor = 0
reboot, and/or try another number other than 0 until it's set right.
Title: Re: Login Window on Wrong Screen at Startup
Post by: ssign on February 14, 2020, 02:39:56 PM
Boom. You got it. Thanks so very much! My active monitor had to be 1, though. :)