Add panel to secondary monitor on Ubuntu 10.04

Question

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:

appears to be a duplicate of http://superuser.com/questions/140476/running-ubuntu-with-multiple-monitors-having-a-panel-each — quack quixote, May 15 '10 at 12:03

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '10 at 11:35

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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.

answered May 15 '10 at 11:35

Trey Hunner

How do you do that thing with the ALT? – Wuffers May 15 '10 at 12:00
alt, click on ur panel with left, HOLD down the left button and drag. – Apache May 15 '10 at 13:07
Lol, I know that, I was wondering how you make the ALT look like it does in your answer. – Wuffers May 15 '10 at 13:34
Wait, nvm, know now, its the `` HTML tag :P – Wuffers May 15 '10 at 14:52
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One 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 Feb 02 '11 at 14:33
this still works on 11.10 gnome classic – montrealmike Feb 13 '12 at 00:42
Doesn't work anymore – Apr 02 '12 at 18:56

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 16:07

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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

answered Mar 07 '11 at 16:07

Jacob Hume

Alt-drag also stopped working for me recently - seems to be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627732 – David Fraser Jun 30 '11 at 07:21
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alt + drag doesn't anymore, un-checking expand did the trick. – ish1301 Jul 18 '11 at 20:30

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