How to Swap Display Identity (Identities)

Anonymous
2009-12-03T02:46:30+00:00

Windows 7 - Display 'A' Philips primary display - Display 'B' IBM secondary display.  A shows as Identity 2 and B shows as Identity 1.  I want to reverse these.  Reason is that the cursor currently travels from display B to A and I need it to go the other way - due to physical location of displays

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Anonymous
2009-12-03T03:38:29+00:00

In the Screen Resolution window, under Change the appearance of your displays , click and drag one of the monitors to its correct location vs. the other one.   The Identity numbers don't matter.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-12-13T07:31:21+00:00

    Hi

    This is correct but it is still a bug with the newer versions of windows. Older versions (on the same hardware) used to allow the assignment to be swapped (Linux still allows this).

    It is great that you found a work around for your problem but it would be nice if the bug could be addressed as well (for example of one display only has VGA and the other only HDMI it would be daft to use adapters to connect them to the wrong ports).

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-13T05:37:23+00:00

    I was having this problem, but I finally figured a solution.

    My Problem:  I bought an Adapter for Display port to HDMI cable. My monitor was always plugged into my one and only HDMI port, and identified as 1. Then, I plugged my TV into one of the Display ports using my new adapter so I could have 2 screens. The TV then thought it was as PC screen, and it insisted on identifying as 1, and forced my actual PC screen monitor to identify as 2.

    My Solution: I plugged my plugged my HDMI cable from my PC monitor into the adapter, and plugged my my HDMI cable from my TV into the only HDMI port from my computer.

    My Conclusion: The numbering for the monitor identity depends on which port of your computer's graphics card you are plugged into. For my computer, the numbering goes right to left, when looking at the back of my case/computer tower. The HDMI port is on the left, making it, I believe, the 4th port, with 3 ports to the right. My TV identifies as 2 because that is the left most port that it is plugged into now. My actual PC monitor is plugged into port 3, making it identify as 1. It also identifies as 1 when its plugged into ports 4 or 3, right to left, because I only have 2 displays hooked up.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-04T15:19:37+00:00

    I see this is an old problem so I don't see much chance of a solution but I have found another reason why it would be nice to swap the identities in Windows 10...

    Background:

    1. I have a Huion GT 200+ v2 for drawing (amazing screen with 8000 pressure levels) and an ASUS screen for "everything else"
    2. The Huion driver puts the pen only on display 1 (OK that's a bug with their software I guess)

    Sadly, Windows will always put ASUS on display 1 and Huion on 2 (even if I swap plugs on the graphics card)

    So now I have to unplug the ASUS to draw which slightly defeats the idea of having two monitors.

    As Windows is now a service please can I request a patch that will allow users to assign which display is display 1

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-10-23T17:13:26+00:00

    It works for me.

    Thanks

    Manmohan Bhamra

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