Posted on Jul 22, 2020 by kingbeowulf
For many years I used nvidia drivers and utilities along with an xorg.conf to set up 2 to 3 monitors on KDE and Xfce. Recently I switched to the new AMD NAVI GPUs (RX 590 and RX 5700 XT) and the new Slackware-current amdgpu driver stack. In KDE, setting up dual monitors was easy in their display GUI, but Xfce-4.12 was problematic. No matter what I did, the second monitor was always on the virtual right side of the primaty monitor, or the primary and secondary were switched. A workaround is to invoke xrandr directly:
Jul 22, 2020
kingbeowulf