Article 5JH2E How to designate Primary screen in XFCE

How to designate Primary screen in XFCE

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I have Slackware-Current and have recently installed XFCE as my desktop using xwmconfig. Everything works fine, except for designating the Primary screen. I have 4 monitors arranged as left - center - right, and the 4th monitor above the center one. I would like to designate "Center" as the Primary display. However, when using Settings Manager > Display, it doesn't matter what I designate as the Primary, I always get the upper xfce panel and lower launcher panel on the "Left" screen, even though the Display settings show the Primary as whatever I set it to.

I've found .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml which does have "Primary true" for my Center monitor and "Primary false" for my Left monitor.

I assume the "Primary" is how the display to show the panels is designated.

Any ideas on how to actually change my Primary monitor?

(BTW - sorry to have created a new thread. I didn't realize that other thread was for XFCE - I thought it was posted on the Slackware-Current KDE crash thread.)latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=HOg1JWrtbm8:qiSuggBO7w4:F7zBnMy latest?i=HOg1JWrtbm8:qiSuggBO7w4:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=HOg1JWrtbm8:qiSuggBO7w4:gIN9vFwHOg1JWrtbm8
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