Switch screens on Slax Linux (xrandr, FluxBox)
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I use Slax Linux as a Live Linux on a USB drive and I have a problem with multiple monitor configuration.
My computer has two screens, this is the output of 
Which is perfect, except, to get the mouse on the left screen, I have to move it out of the right of the right screen. So I want to switch the screens. First I tried:
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1
Now the mouse moves the right way, but the screens look like this:
If I do instead:
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --off --output DVI-I-2 --off
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1
It seems to work at first, my screens looks like the first picture and the mouse moves okay. But when I click on the four squares to start a program, the screens look like this:
How can I switch the screens and get FluxBox (version 1.3.5) to work normally? Note that I'll be using this installation on different computers, so I don't want any permanent configuration, just a few lines of code that I can run after startup when I'm using this particular computer. Editing of configuration files is allowed though, Slax uses a temporary file system and changes will be lost on reboot anyway.
xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
1920x1200 59.95*+
1600x1200 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DVI-I-2 connected 1280x1024+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02
1280x960 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
When Slax is started, it looks like this: (50% scale)
Which is perfect, except, to get the mouse on the left screen, I have to move it out of the right of the right screen. So I want to switch the screens. First I tried:
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1
Now the mouse moves the right way, but the screens look like this:
If I do instead:
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --off --output DVI-I-2 --off
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1
It seems to work at first, my screens looks like the first picture and the mouse moves okay. But when I click on the four squares to start a program, the screens look like this:
How can I switch the screens and get FluxBox (version 1.3.5) to work normally? Note that I'll be using this installation on different computers, so I don't want any permanent configuration, just a few lines of code that I can run after startup when I'm using this particular computer. Editing of configuration files is allowed though, Slax uses a temporary file system and changes will be lost on reboot anyway.
Asked by Paul
(141 rep)
Mar 5, 2019, 04:13 PM
Last activity: Mar 5, 2019, 04:32 PM
Last activity: Mar 5, 2019, 04:32 PM