[SOLVED] Slim not showing on my main screen, laptop's own screen is broken

recklessswing · 2022-10-28 21:42:18

I have a laptop, it's own screen has lightning problems. So I use another monitor. But when logging with slim, it shows the login text on the laptop screen, I can barely see that screen. I want that thing shown on the monitor I plugged.

fsmithred · 2022-10-29 00:38:46

If you go into the display setting, you should be able to set the external monitor to be the primary.

berni51 · 2022-10-29 06:58:50

Probably calling xrandr in your .xsession or .xinitrc may help.

Here my example on an older Thinkpad T410S:

xrandr --output VGA-1 --primary
xrandr --output LVDS-1 --off

But before simply call xrandr without any parameters, to figure out what the names for your outputs is. In above example VGA-1 is the external monitor and LVDS-1 the laptops own screen.

recklessswing · 2022-10-29 19:21:48

fsmithred wrote:

If you go into the display setting, you should be able to set the external monitor to be the primary.

Bro you don't get it. I am talking about login screen... Not the display screen after the login screen.

recklessswing · 2022-10-29 19:23:33

berni51 wrote:

Probably calling xrandr in your .xsession or .xinitrc may help.
Here my example on an older Thinkpad T410S:
xrandr --output VGA-1 --primary
xrandr --output LVDS-1 --off
But before simply call xrandr without any parameters, to figure out what the names for your outputs is. In above example VGA-1 is the external monitor and LVDS-1 the laptops own screen.

Sadly this didn't work. I want this to work on slim login screen. I assume this .xinitrc is run when login is complete, so it's useless.

berni51 · 2022-10-29 20:50:55

At first I had to enter name and password blind, then the screen was switched to the corresponding output. Then I enabled in slim.conf the sessionstart_cmd with the name of an executable script file, where the same xrandr commands are called. Worked fine on my old Thinkpad.

Camtaf · 2022-10-30 09:42:26

There are keys at the top of your laptop keyboard which set which monitor is used.

Options are usually internal (laptop), external, or both.

Edit: You could also remove the laptop screen completely if it's broken, I did this on one of mine.

Last edited by Camtaf (2022-10-30 09:44:30)

recklessswing · 2022-10-30 23:17:16

berni51 wrote:

At first I had to enter name and password blind, then the screen was switched to the corresponding output. Then I enabled in slim.conf the sessionstart_cmd with the name of an executable script file, where the same xrandr commands are called. Worked fine on my old Thinkpad.

This would probably work, but can't try. Changed to lightdm already. Works already.

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#1 2022-10-28 21:42:18

[SOLVED] Slim not showing on my main screen, laptop's own screen is broken

#2 2022-10-29 00:38:46

Re: [SOLVED] Slim not showing on my main screen, laptop's own screen is broken

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#4 2022-10-29 19:21:48

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