Big Trev
Multi-monitor madness on Mint

Well, madness may be overstating it.  Maybe “Slight inconvenience”?  Doesn’t start with M though…

I’ve got around to rolling my main desktop onto Linux Mint (from Ubuntu) after running it on my laptop for a few weeks - definitely a nice little distro, works a lot more “out of box” than Ubuntu (which is what it says on the tin).

Anyway, the madness of which I speak is that I’m running a dual monitor setup - a nice-ish 22in Samsung LCD, and an old 17in CRT that I picked out of a dumpster.  Hence, most of my work is done on the LCD.  Mint seems intent on wanting the 17in to be the “main” monitor - firstly when I changed it to a dual monitor setup from clone (in the monitor settings), it still had the taskbar on the 17in. 

Did a search online, couldn’t find much about how to move the taskbar, or whatever it’s called, is this a Windows term?  (Microsoft TaskBar?)  Saw something mentioned about dragging it around while holding down Ctrl, however it did work with Alt - Just hold Alt, hold left-click on the mouse and drag it to where-ever your heart desires.

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