I have been using Cinnamon for my window manager on my linux desktop. I’m using a Thinkpad T460p with the dock and a pair of U2311H monitors rotated to the left side by side. This config is fairly easy to setup in Windows and OSX and works on linux but can require a little more fiddling.<\/p>\n
The default cinnamon display settings dialog did not allow me to position the monitors relative to each other. Instead if I tried to drag a monitor closer or change it’s position the displays would flip around to be on top or on the bottom. There was no small adjustments, just wild snapping around.<\/p>\n
So dragging an application window or even moving the mouse from my two monitors to the laptop meant that if I exited the dell monitor high up on the panel the mouse would appear low on my laptop’s display. Additionally the panels appeared to have a large buffer space between them so that when dragging a window across displays it disappears into the upside-down (You should really watch Stranger Things on Netflix) for a bit before reappearing on the next monitor.\u00c2\u00a0 This incongruity bothers me to no end.<\/p>\n
Then a stumbled upon ARandR, a fantastic little tool for adjusting your monitor’s position and resolution. It’s in the It’s a gui front end for xrandr and it works perfectly! No manually counting pixels to adjust your monitor’s relative position.<\/p>\n
The best part is, now that I fixed the position in ARandR the cinnamon display settings dialog seems to work as expected? I’m sure it’s a bug but I don’t have time to track it down.<\/p>\n
If you find yourself about to pull your hair out with multi-monitor position and orientation in linux try ARandR!<\/p>\n
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