Bug 458024

SUMMARY

When plugging an external monitor to a laptop with almost twice the resolution that a built in monitor has, the default position of external monitor is such as if laptop is placed at *top* left/right of the external monitor (they are aligned at top).

In real world I believe most of users place laptop either below the external screen if it is on a stand, or to *bottom* left/right.

Such default placement is not intuitive when one wants to move mouse from external monitor back to laptop's screen (mouse stopps when hitting bottom part of external monitor and can only be moved from the upper part). This then requires opening display settings and manually adjusting placement of monitors to resemble actual setup.

I believe that updating default placement of  (bigger) external screen when extedned left/right so that its aligned bottom with built-in monitor would be more user friendly for users as it would resemble majority of actual setups. This would also make for less required steps when reconfiguring displays in cases where kscreen does not correctly load previous setup for same screen.