Comments on: Move Gnome Panels to a Different Monitor in Ubuntu

By: myro

myro — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:08:10 +0000

thanks!!!

By: nuser

nuser — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:39:03 +0000

I am running CentOS 6 and I had to yum install gconf-editor and use this method in order to move the panels, because dragging and alt-dragging wasn’t working for me.

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:03:08 +0000

On (Gnome 2, Ubuntu Lucid), I had to un-check “Show hide buttons” before the grabbers on the ends appeared and could be dragged to move the toolbar to the second monitor.

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By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:32:00 +0000

Thanks for the tipp! It’s a bummer how much work it is in ubuntu to grad around a panel. Even Windows make that one easier

By: Christopher Berry

Christopher Berry — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:22:13 +0000

I keep running into little things regarding dual monitors on Ubuntu. This time it was the brightness setting only adjusting the laptop screen. I’m sure there are more, so any you know of, please share. Thanks again.

By: Chris Jean

Chris Jean — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:21:27 +0000

Last I checked, and this was a while ago, it’s an issue that the Linux version of Flash has. When Flash loads, it elects a monitor as the primary monitor (this typically follows the primary monitor set in your settings if your driver supports such a thing). Rather than using the monitor that the Flash object is running in to do full screen, it will always go to the primary monitor.

I have never found a way to control this.

By: Christopher Berry

Christopher Berry — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:40:12 +0000

Hm, here’s a related inquiry for ya…
When I am watching a youtube video on the laptop screen and click to expand to fullscreen, it automatically goes to fullscreen on the external monitor. No matter where the video originates, fullscreen always goes to the external monitor.
Any idea why this might be or how to control where it expands to?

By: Christopher Berry

Christopher Berry — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:32:23 +0000

Yes! Thank you, good sir, for your wonderfully written and understandable post. I just started using Ubuntu a couple days ago and upgraded to 11.04 with Unity, then switched back to Gnome and this tip worked. I haven’t tried it in Unity, but it seems like it would work.
Great day to you…

By: Colin M

Colin M — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:24:55 +0000

Wow that was amazingly easy. I had no idea that I could customize panels!