Dual Monitor & Startup/Login Screen

General Help
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Hi Everyone,

I have Zorin OS 18 and my PC is connected to 1 PC Monitor (Monitor 1) and one LG TV Oled (Monitor 2). Obviously, the TV is often shut down and I mostly work from the PC monitor.

For some reason, at login, the invite to add enter my password is always on the screen #2 (TV) vs. the screen #1 (monitor).

Does someone know how to change this? I tried to deactivate the second screen from the monitor settings (when logged in), but at login, the invite to type the password stills shows up on the TV ...

Thanks for the help!

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Setup your primary monitor correctly in display settings.
Copy
~/.config/monitors.xml
to
/var/lib/gdm3/.config/

sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm3/.config/

Then reboot.

In some threads there was mentioned to put the ownership of this file to gdm
I'm not sure if this step is needed.

sudo chown gdm:gdm /var/lib/gdm3/.config/monitors.xml

Here is a guide that shows it - but select your PC monitor.

3

Thank you very much, it worked!!

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