01-28-2019
This sounds like your laptop is treating the external monitor as a secondary display and the (non-existing?) internal display as first. Perhaps the laptop has an internal graphics adapter and it treats the internal display as first, the external as second.
Usually laptops have some "function key" to switch that behavior. If you could tell us the exact making of your laptop somebody might even know how to do it.
I hope this helps.
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gvfs-monitor-file
gvfs-monitor-file(1) User Commands gvfs-monitor-file(1)
NAME
gvfs-monitor-file - monitor the change of a file using the VFS system
SYNOPSIS
gvfs-monitor-file URI
DESCRIPTION
gvfs-monitor-file monitors the change of a file using the VFS system.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Monitor a local file
example% gvfs-monitor-file file:///tmp/example
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gvfs-monitor-file Executable to monitor the change of a file using the VFS system.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-gvfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1), gvfs-
rename(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)
NOTES
Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 25 Mar 2008 gvfs-monitor-file(1)