Updated April 2019<\/p>\n
This guide helps you choose on which screen, your loginscreen is displayed on in GDM\/Fedora 25 & Ubuntu 18.04 +<\/p>\n
GDM i the new era uses Wayland, therefore config file must be Wayland compatible.
\nSolutions is partly gui based, and partly terminal based.<\/p>\n
Login with your user, with Wayland session, select with cog on loginscreen. NB: Before Fedora 25 you should select Gnome with Wayland, on Fedora 25 you just select Gnome.
\nAfter login, set preferred display settings from controlpanel.<\/p>\n
Fedora:<\/p>\n
Start a terminal and run the following commands:<\/p>\n
sudo cp .config\/monitors.xml \/var\/lib\/gdm\/.config\/monitors.xml\r\nsudo chown gdm:gdm \/var\/lib\/gdm\/.config\/monitors.xml<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Ubuntu:<\/p>\n
Start a terminal and run the following commands:<\/p>\n
sudo cp ~\/.config\/monitors.xml ~gdm\/.config\/monitors.xml\r\nsudo chown gdm:gdm ~gdm\/.config\/monitors.xml<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Restart and it should all work.
\nMy setup, currently is a Lenovo X230 with a external VGA monitor, now with loginscreen on VGA monitor. When VGA monitor is not connected, the loginscreen shows on builtin monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated April 2019 This guide helps you choose on which screen, your loginscreen is displayed on in GDM\/Fedora 25 & Ubuntu 18.04 + GDM i the new era uses Wayland, therefore config file must be Wayland compatible. Solutions is partly gui based, and partly terminal based. Login with your user, with Wayland session, select with …<\/p>\n