Comment 18 for bug 290935

I found a way to set the monitor number on which to display the panel:

gconf-editor and in

/apps/panel/top_panel_screen0

change monitor from 0 to 1.

Still new apps open on the monitor 0 (the laptop screen), so this is partial solution, but nice anyway.

What I would like is to set the default monitor, that is the monitor that new apps are launched on (in KDE3 there was setting always run new apps on screen X or run new apps on the screen where the mouse pointer is -- that configuration was really nice). If we want to avoid configuration option and prefer magic, I would suggest, that the biggest screen is the default.