Ubuntu - twinview - I want the desktop icons on the right monitor

Question

I'm running LinuxMint (Ubuntu derivative) with TwinView enabled.

My right monitor is my primary and my left monitor is my secondary.

The problem is that the desktop icons remain on the left monitor even though the taskbars are on the right/primary monitor.

Is there any way to fix this?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 29 '12 at 14:16

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In case you find no solution, you could opt to just drag them over.

edited Apr 29 '12 at 14:16

Tamara Wijsman

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answered Dec 16 '09 at 16:23

Bobby

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score -2 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 15:26

Tell Mint that the that the primary monitor is on the left but select the monitor you have actually positioned on the right. It takes a minute or two to get used to dragging your mouse to the right to get to the monitor on the left but it is not to bad.

NOTE: obviously this will cause many problems if you are running a program (computer game) across both monitors. If you are instead placing separate programs on each monitor (firefox on your primary and a pdf on the secondary) there will be no loss in functionality.

Ubuntu - twinview - I want the desktop icons on the right monitor

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