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Old 01-15-2010, 09:27 AM   #1
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I have two screens, my regular monitor and my TV. When I open a program, sometimes it opens on my monitor and sometimes it opens on my TV. I don't usually have my TV on, so I want to have everything to default to open on my monitor. How do I set this?
 
Old 01-15-2010, 09:45 AM   #2
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It's the job of the window manager to place newly opened windows, however I don't believe that it's configurable in all window managers. Which one are you using?

Is there some reason you just aren't disabling the TV when it's not on?

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Old 01-19-2010, 07:15 AM   #3
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It's the job of the window manager to place newly opened windows, however I don't believe that it's configurable in all window managers. Which one are you using?

Is there some reason you just aren't disabling the TV when it's not on?

Adam
I am using KDE. And I could run nvidia-settings, disable it, and restart X every time I begin using the second screen and end using it, but it just seems to me that a default window opening screen would/should be something that is easily specified somewhere.

If it's not configurable in the KDE window manager, is there another WM that you know it is configurable on?

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Old 01-19-2010, 07:28 AM   #4
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I know compiz has an option in the Place windows plugin to place new windows on the active output device. I'm not aware of a similar option in KDE, though I'm surprised that most window managers don't automatically place new windows on the active output device by default.

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Old 01-19-2010, 09:38 AM   #5
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I have a dual monitor setup as well, and when I want to play games I turn one monitor off. You can do it through nvidia-settings and you don't have to log out and log in. It happens right then.
 
Old 01-19-2010, 12:30 PM   #6
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I have a dual monitor setup as well, and when I want to play games I turn one monitor off. You can do it through nvidia-settings and you don't have to log out and log in. It happens right then.
When I open nvidia-settings, select "X Server Display Configuration," select my TV, and then click "Configure", the radio button I would select is "Disabled (requires X restart)" Selecting it, saying I'm sure, and then quitting nvidia-settings does not disable my TV until I restart X.

Is there another way I can temporarily disable my TV without restarting X?
 
Old 01-19-2010, 01:12 PM   #7
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If you disable the tv, then hit apply that should do it. You don't have to save it to xorg.conf every time. I just disable it when I need to then re-enable it.
 
  


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