[SOLVED] Moving panel with drag does not work

[kneejo]

I'm running my main screen with my Nvidia card and my second screen is on Intel integrated graphics.

In every tutorial about moving panels they mention that dragging them with the mouse moves them to another screen. But in my case that doesn't work. I want the main panel on the second screen. Making the second screen primary solves this but some games get confused and launch on the second (now primary) screen.

In short, why can't I drag a panel to the other screen? Is it related to using both NVIDIA and Intel?

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System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-89-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 info: mate-panel 
           wm: marco 1.24.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97X-Gaming 3 v: x.x serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: F5 
           date: 05/30/2014 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 64002 
           Speed: 1008 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000 3: 1000 4: 1000 5: 1001 6: 997 7: 1002 
           8: 1000 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0412 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 470.74 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:13c2 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa compositor: marco 
           v: 1.24.0 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.74 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 
           chip ID: 8086:0c0c 
           Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:8ca0 
           Device-3: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:0fbb 
           Device-4: Trust USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 3-13:7 chip ID: 145f:013e 
           Device-5: C-Media CM108 Audio Controller type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 3-11:6 
           chip ID: 0d8c:013c 
           Device-6: C-Media CM102-A+/102S+ Audio Controller type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus ID: 3-6:10 chip ID: 0d8c:0103 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-89-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 
           bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 1969:e091 
           IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 1.72 TiB (58.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q 
           scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA300 size: 2.73 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: ABB0 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 284.01 GiB used: 114.30 GiB (40.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 16.00 GiB used: 3.0 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-1: 510 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 0 fan-5: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
           Voltages: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: N/A vbat: 2.95 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-focal.list 
           1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu focal main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/packages.linuxmint.com/packages uma main upstream import backport
           2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:      Processes: 263 Uptime: 9h 50m Memory: 15.50 GiB used: 3.66 GiB (23.6%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

[gittiest personITW]

Try simple things first before taking the computer apart.

Can you right-click an 'empty' part on the taskbar you are looking to move.
Select 'Panel Edit Mode' = enable.
Then drag it.
Right-click it it is where you want it, and select 'Panel Edit Mode' = disable

[kneejo]

Update: figured out that adding a second panel works. I can drag that to the second screen with holding Alt. Apparently the primary panel can not be dragged to the second screen. Marking as solved as I will play with the options I have now. But would like to know if I'm overlooking something.

I'm looking to move the default, primary panel to the second screen. I did not find Panel Edit Mode when I right click. I am on MATE if that makes a difference.

[kneejo]

Ok, got it working now with 2 panels, one on each screen. Only thing I can't seem to move to the second screen is the indicators of volume, networking and update manager. They don't seem to be a movable panel element.

Edit: fixed. It's called the Xapp Status Applet

So I answered my own question, which I hope is okay. Someone else might have the same problem and my answer can help them.


https://imgur.com/a/khpSNH3