Yeah, poor communication, really frustrating. That said, if they stick a steamOS logo on this, I'm definitely buying it! :)

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Hmmm, when he said "what about a native Linux port", I didn't get the impression that he was talking about "The End is Nigh". I imagined (perhaps optimistically) that he meant, "I've finished working on this, but I've also got an unannounced Linux port in the works".

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I'm not at home this week so unable to post my xorg config however, I run my 2 displays as 2 separate x screens which means whatever happens on one screen will not affect the other. The only limitations are that you can't drag windows from one another.
2 X screens never failed me regardless of game engine or wine.

Similar to how Hamish runs his set up. I'd miss dragging screens over - I run Chrome and the Steam client off to the side when I'm gaming, but I prefer to work on the much bigger Acer screen when I'm not, so I just drag my Chrome browser over. Sure, I could kill it and restart, but for me, that's nowhere near as optimal.

The solution in this article has been perfect for me so far. Hopefully it helps someone else.

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Would love to buy/play this, but I'll only show support with my wallet when I see support for the game. It sounds like I might be buying it one day though! I can hope.

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Quoting: ripperThere is no bulletproof method, since you're setting only the default. Any app can still ignore it and implement its own logic. This might be better with Wayland.

Yeah, that's a really good point. What's odd though is that Liam is having trouble with DOTA2, but it works okay for me. Similarly, MayeulC noted above that there are issues with Payday2, but again, I'm alright. It's just so inconsistent. Maybe you're right about Wayland, but that still feels years away (for Nvidia people at least).

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Just finished Dig (straight after being blown-away by Heist), so this is getting bought immediately! Bye bye weekend!

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: scaineUnless you meant that these DEs have an inbuilt way to specify a default monitor, in which case, cool, but still not really my preference to be honest.

KDE has the primary screen setting.

Gotcha. Honestly, I'd have given KDE a shot if I'd known that. But I'm glad this fixes it for me, since I do prefer gnome to KDE. Although, my last KDE trip was back in the early KDE4 days so that's probably not a fair comparison.

Quoting: MayeulCWorked pretty well on KDE last time I tried. Except for Payday 2.

I usually drag windows to the correct monitor with alt+click if they show up on the wrong one. Some windows require the Steam overlay to be open for this to work.

Also, I think you have less trouble if your primary monitor is on on the left (which has almost never been the case for me, sadly).

My primary monitor, the Acer, is on the left, but it would also default to the right monitor! :D

Also, Liam has tried this article's solution and found that some games, for him, still ignore the setting, like DOTA 2. I couldn't replicate his result though - this article has fully fixed the whole "wrong monitor" issue for me. At least so far. I've started about 10 or so games since making this change, including maybe about 4 brand new, freshly installed games, and they've all started on the correct monitor now.

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Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: EikeWhile it looks nice, turning right (or was it left?) until you arrive where you want to go doesn't make a puzzle game. Keyboard/mouse control was awful, and the computer generated voice would have been better left out. No, just no.

I don't think the voice is computer generated, but rather backward talking played in reverse (for example like Twin Peaks).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-l6vhq5vc [External Link]

Man that was a freaky scene. The whole Black Lodge stuff was just out there.

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Quoting: sn0rlaxThe "Save to X file" option in Nvidia Settings works, but you need to be sure to then move that file you just created to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ This is where X looks for configurations upon boot.

Yep, the "Save to X file" option works for me too, and unlike you, I don't have to move the file - it really does "just work". However, that particular option doesn't work - it would always revert to HDMI-0 on reboot. Pretty frustrating, as all the other options would save perfectly.

For everyone saying something along the lines of "just move the window", well...

a) What a hassle, right? This is about avoiding the need to do so, and
b) If you have different resolutions per monitor, that doesn't work too well. When I was running the Acer in 4K mode, the window would pop on my old monitor at 1920x1080. Even if I moved it, I'd have to then set the game options to the correct resolution. It was pretty tedious.

Also, some games just crap out horribly when they're moved. Unity games in particular seem to offset the mouse slightly... which I suspect is a Unity thing, because the offset looks suspiciously like the distance related to the size of the dash. Just a guess though.

Or just use a decent Windows Manager like Dwm or i3wm...

Well damn, but dwm looks ugly. And i3wm is a tiler, right, which isn't really my preference. But either way, this is about setting a default monitor, and less about the desktop environment remembering where you like a window or full screen app to appear. Unless you meant that these DEs have an inbuilt way to specify a default monitor, in which case, cool, but still not really my preference to be honest.

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Quoting: BTREEdited and added a note by myself to the above because I didn't expect you'd paste my configuration! It'll probably avoid confusion if you know why I did that and where you can see more about the various options you can have ;)

I did put in bold that this was a very custom config, but since it's another approach to the whole problem, I thought it was worth sharing. I'm no expert on xorg.conf though. I'd usually search the Arch Wiki for relevant stuff, to be honest! I might run Ubuntu, but that wiki is an absolute mine of useful information (e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/multihead#Configuration_using_xorg.conf) [External Link]!

[EDIT: Ha! Just noticed that BTRE linked to much the same article! But the Arch Wiki was one of the avenues that led to the xrandr solution I settled on, via the whole "primary" clue. In summary, Arch Wiki is awesome.]

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