Thanks for the info and how to get it to start automatically. I'll try it out and see what happens. Don't suppose you have any idea about the dead space on my primary monitor? The 30-40 pixels of extra space below the taskbar that the mouse can travel into?

Try to specify resolution, maybe that is the problem.

Good idea. I'll have to give that a shot. I'll reboot my laptop so it wipes the settings and I'll specify the resolution of both screens. Maybe it will be the difference.

Try doing something like Using the auto switch should make it use the default resolution of the monitor. I have done this with my laptop and 22" monitor being 1280x800 and 1680x1050 respectively.

I tried the command and it did work to set my proper resolutions, but I am still having the issue of the dead space below the edge of my main display (laptop screen). Any other ideas?

Hi all,

I'm really hoping to mark this ticket as solved, but I'm still hoping for a solution to the extra space below my main screen (although I'm probably going to give up on that for now), and I have stumbled on a new issue. I tried what VARNICA suggested to add my xrandr commands to my xinitrc file, but it didn't work.

I am new to Slackware and Linux for these types of changes. Is there something I have to enable or do to have it look at the xinitrc file? I put it in my home directory and had to create it since it didn't exist. But I thought it automatically searched for it. Can someone direct me to what I have to do to make my xrandr commands launch at startup?

Thanks.

Hello

you have .xinitrc file in your home directory, but it is hidden. Try ls -la command and you should see it .xinitrc
Files with dot in front are hidden. Or open terminal and in your home directory type

Cheers

When I did that (I use VI though), it was a new file that was created. So the file didn't exist prior to me creating it. I did add the commands exactly as you laid it out, but it didn't appear to do anything.

Hello what DE do you use and
can you post the output of

switch user whit your log in user.

or simply in user directory exec ls -la and post so we can see.

Here is the output.

Keep in mind that .xinitrc exists because I created it. The following is what is in the file:

Ok, strange but try this first change the mode of script

and then in X go to the start menu Settings, Xfce 4 Settings Manager, Session and Startup, Application Autostart and Add the script .startxrandar

Ok, so I just did what you suggested and it worked. Thank you very much.

Now the question I have is isn't there a way to have that start via files from the command line or something? Using the application autostart is fine, but I would like to know how to get things to start automatically just by modifying the proper files (like with the .xinitrc if it had worked). I'm trying to learn all I can and I don't want to end up being tied to any specific window manager if possible.

Thanks.

If you want to start from command line, you can copy .xinitrc from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce to your home directory, just rename it to .xinitrc. And edit to start the script.



To learn more here are some links:


http://www.slackbook.org/html/x-wind...m-xinitrc.html

and

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc

Thanks for the info and the links. I'll read through them and try it out.

Thanks for all your help, going to finally close this thread :)