New to Manjaro - dual monitor setup questions

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Hi!
After super fast, smooth installation of latest Manjaro LTS xcfe I set up dual monitors and everything works fine.
Then, I made my laptop lid ignored by the system I also switched off laptop screen. I closed lid and put laptop upright in a stand.
Now, when I wants to sleep I set short sleep time on battery, so when I switch off power, laptop goes to sleep nicely.
When I tap my external keyboard, it wakes up.
But, I have to type my password blindly, and only then I see desktop on my monitor.
No big deal, but maybe it’s possible to direct login screen to my monitor as well?
Also, can I put laptop to sleep from xcfe?

Happy Manjaro user Tom

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tried to toggle off the monitor power then back on? Also some monitors have sleep settings needed to be switched of in the very own monitor menu, independently from computer.

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Thanks!
I noticed that nvidia is not primary display, and I used “reverse prime” to switch it on. Everything is good now, laptop wakes up and monitor wakes up. I can’t believe how fast alacrity works.
However, I cannot put it to sleep. Ctrl-alt del logs out and then, suspend doesn’t work… no big deal…
Greetings,
Tom

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good to know, thanks for the detailed description, this might help some others with the same problem : - )

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I tried to put link but I’m probably too new in forum :slight_smile:
But it’s easy to find - arch reverse prime
I try to find a way to put beast to sleep

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I solved sleep suspend problem
I installed pm-utils and sudo pm-suspend is instant sleep

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After pm-utils install, regular suspend in logout app works as well as sudo systemctl suspend

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