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I use Slax Linux as a Live Linux on a USB drive and I have a problem with multiple monitor configuration.

My computer has two screens, this is the output of xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
 1920x1200 59.95*+
 1600x1200 60.00 
 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 
 1280x960 60.00 
 1152x864 75.00 
 1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00 
 832x624 74.55 
 800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25 
 640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94 
 720x400 70.08 
DVI-I-2 connected 1280x1024+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
 1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02 
 1280x960 60.00 
 1152x864 75.00 
 1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00 
 832x624 74.55 
 800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25 
 640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94 
 720x400 70.08 
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

When Slax is started, it looks like this: (50% scale)

Which is perfect, except, to get the mouse on the left screen, I have to move it out of the right of the right screen. So I want to switch the screens. First I tried:

xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1

Now the mouse moves the right way, but the screens look like this:

If I do instead:

xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --off --output DVI-I-2 --off
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1

It seems to work at first, my screens looks like the first picture and the mouse moves okay. But when I click on the four squares to start a program, the screens look like this:

How can I switch the screens and get FluxBox (version 1.3.5) to work normally? Note that I'll be using this installation on different computers, so I don't want any permanent configuration, just a few lines of code that I can run after startup when I'm using this particular computer. Editing of configuration files is allowed though, Slax uses a temporary file system and changes will be lost on reboot anyway.

I figured it out. Rubber duck debugging at its best. Found it here.

The solution is to change ~/.fluxbox/init permanently. Change session.screen0.allowRemoteActions: false to
session.screen0.allowRemoteActions: true. FluxBox needs to be restarted for this to work, or simply do a reboot.

Then, when needed FluxBox can be restarted after a xrandr command. In my case:

xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-I-2 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1
fluxbox-remote restart