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Basically what happens is my monitors are positioned incorrectly. So the monitor that should be to the right is to the left and vice versa. This makes using my setup quite difficult, since I have to move the mouse to the left to get to the monitor that's physically on my right side. Can someone show me an example configuration for xorg.conf? I am using the proprietary Nvidia driver if that changes anything. I also have an Intel integrated GPU but I don't really need an hybrid graphics setup for now, and want to use my Nvidia GPU.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

if you are on nvidia, just set them up from nvidia-settings, you can move them around and then save the configuration

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You could possibly do this with xrandr where source1 and source2 are the names of your two monitors.

xrandr --output source1 --left-of source2

If your desktop environment has a monitor settings option, that might be more reliable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X12?

About your problem: You can configure your monitors through the nvidia-utils and then generate a xorg.conf file for these settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

typo. i meant x11. anyway when I get home i'll try using nvidia-utils

[–] Gentoo1337 1 points 1 year ago

I thought you were using some obscure X11 fork, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you got also give arandr a try, as it is a GUI to xrandr and you can move your virtual monitors around a bit, until it matches the physical locations/orientations