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Boris
Asked: 2011-11-20 07:47:37 +0800 CST

How can I force fullscreen on my right screen?

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I have 2 screens: 17" on left and 22" screen on right side.

double screen

When I watch a movie with VLC and want to watch on full-screen on my 22" screen (the right one), I move my VLC window in right screen and then click on full-screen => no problem.

full-screen with vlc

BUT when using Firefox and watching streaming video, watching on full-screen is always on 17" screen (left one).

full-screen with firefox

How can I force full-screen to be on my 22" screen (right one) ?

firefox

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    After reading severals questions about the subject "multiple-monitors", I've found the solution.
    In this answer I've discovered the existance of file ~/.config/monitors.xml. (thank you "pamar84")

    So I did this:

    1. do a backup of this file cp ~/.config/monitors.xml ~/.config/monitors.xml-bkp
    2. open this file gedit ~/.config/monitors.xml
    3. this file was containing 3 configurations !!!
      So I did some cleaning:
      • I've found the configuration that I'm using and remove the 2 others.
      • also set my left screen to be the primary one.


    Now with such nice ~/.config/monitors.xml file, Firefox is not disoriented anymore and have the good behavior:
    - when my window is left side and I choose full-screen => full-screen is left screen
    - when my window is right side and I choose full-screen => full-screen is right screen

    Here is the content of the cleaned ~/.config/monitors.xml file: enter image description here

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