I would like to set a default display arrangement for when I connect my laptop to an unknown screen.

My background here is that I mostly work at the university labs, which means I basically have a new display every time I start working.

When I plug the VGA into my laptop, it automatically switches into this mode:

Default display arrangement

Now, the VGA socket of my laptop happens to be on the left side, so I always place the laptop to the right of the bigger screen. And since that is not going to change until I buy a new one, I would love to be able to make the default behaviour this:

Desired display arrangement

Is there any way to do this? Maybe in the xorg.conf or such? I am running purely on Intel graphics at the moment since my hybrid Nvidia chip is not worth the trouble.

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