How to set external monitor as default?

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  • April 7, 2021 at 6:33 pm #57222
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    Avatardacomboman

    Searched the forum but no results.

    April 7, 2021 at 7:49 pm #57223
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    AvatarModdIt

    Pls See following post from caprea, seems I was thinking too complicated.
    Sorry. Learning new things and finding new tools in antiX nearly every day

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    April 7, 2021 at 8:14 pm #57225
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    capreacaprea

    What about
    control centre > session > set screen resolution
    Did you already try to set your external monitor there as default
    Afterwards you could save this to ~/.screenlayout/default.sh

    It’s possible to let the system run your screenlayout from the start by adding it to the ~/.desktop-session/startup file like this
    $HOME/.screenlayout/default.sh &

    April 8, 2021 at 4:51 am #57235
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    AvatarBobC

    If you need the setup to be conditional for when the external monitor is connected, I posted code to do that in this thread:

    monitor/display configuration

    April 8, 2021 at 1:02 pm #57239
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    Avatardacomboman

    Had searched web after posting and was able to set the external monitor as default.
    But even the default size could not make Firefox fit in right.

    Will try caprea’s tip sometime today and see how it goes.

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