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freelinuxhelp
October 29th, 2008, 03:12 PM
Running Intrepid beta with latest updates on my Lenovo R61 laptop. When at my desk, I connect an LCD monitor to it for a larger desktop. Everything about this setup works perfectly except for the fact that the Gnome panels, top and bottom, load on the monitor - not the laptop display. I can drag them back over to the laptop, but after rebooting, they are back over on the monitor. Is there a way to lock the panels down to the laptop display?
THanks

freelinuxhelp
October 29th, 2008, 03:27 PM
Forgot to include screenshot:
http://freelinuxhelp.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/desktop.png

freelinuxhelp
October 31st, 2008, 02:45 AM
Any ideas?

BugFreeWin
February 8th, 2009, 08:33 PM
Running Intrepid beta with latest updates on my Lenovo R61 laptop. When at my desk, I connect an LCD monitor to it for a larger desktop. Everything about this setup works perfectly except for the fact that the Gnome panels, top and bottom, load on the monitor - not the laptop display. I can drag them back over to the laptop, but after rebooting, they are back over on the monitor. Is there a way to lock the panels down to the laptop display?
THanks

Hello,
I think it is related to the fact, that laptop display is configured to use pipe B, and external monitor - pipe A, and if available, gnome uses pipe A.

Xorg.0.log:

(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0): Pipe A is on
(II) intel(0): Display plane A is now enabled and connected to pipe A.
(II) intel(0): Pipe B is on
(II) intel(0): Display plane B is now enabled and connected to pipe B.
(II) intel(0): Output VGA is connected to pipe A
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS is connected to pipe B