Add panel to secondary monitor on Ubuntu 10.04

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I was wondering if it is possible to put a panel on a secondary monitor.

Here are methods I have tried which did not work:

Click and drag the panel from the primary monitor to the secondary monitor
Installing TwinView (couldn't find it)

Wuffers

Posted 2010-05-15T02:05:09.053

Reputation: 16 645

appears to be a duplicate of http://superuser.com/questions/140476/running-ubuntu-with-multiple-monitors-having-a-panel-each

– quack quixote – 2010-05-15T12:03:12.340

Answers

Create the new panel as usual and then holding down ALT and drag it to the other monitor.

This ALT+drag method also works for moving windows around without needing to grab the top bar.

Trey Hunner

Posted 2010-05-15T02:05:09.053

Reputation: 1 825

How do you do that thing with the ALT? – Wuffers – 2010-05-15T12:00:48.260

alt, click on ur panel with left, HOLD down the left button and drag. – Apache – 2010-05-15T13:07:09.787

Lol, I know that, I was wondering how you make the ALT look like it does in your answer. – Wuffers – 2010-05-15T13:34:25.723

Wait, nvm, know now, its the <kbd> HTML tag :P – Wuffers – 2010-05-15T14:52:32.567

1One thing to be aware of with this: you need to drag the panel itself, not any of the icons or applets in it. Sometimes applets and icons will fill up the whole panel. I exposed a little bit of my panel by middle-clicking one of my launcher icons and dragging it to the side. Then I could ALT-Click or right click, or whatever in that little empty space left behind. – Reed Hedges – 2011-02-02T14:33:24.223

this still works on 11.10 gnome classic – montrealmike – 2012-02-13T00:42:41.120

Doesn't work anymore – None – 2012-04-02T18:56:12.550

The ALT + Drag method didn't work for my desktop, but there is another alternative.

Right-click the panel you'd like to move, and uncheck "Expand" in the properties
The panel will now have two 'handles' on each side - these can be used to drag the panel to a different monitor.
Re-check "Expand" in the panel properties once you have it where you'd like it

Jacob Hume

Posted 2010-05-15T02:05:09.053

Reputation: 421

Alt-drag also stopped working for me recently - seems to be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627732

– David Fraser – 2011-06-30T07:21:40.167

1alt + drag doesn't anymore, un-checking expand did the trick. – ish1301 – 2011-07-18T20:30:37.450