This issue on my Dell Vostro 2510 with NVidia Geforce 8400m was resolved with the patch file above. Thank you Jack-Xiao!
For those new to applying a patch, here is what I did. - Downloaded patch file (/home/myuser/Downloads) - Followed this handy blog post to download the source and recompile the Apt Nautilus package (easy) - To test that a simple recompile and reinstall of this package did not resolve the problem I installed the new .deb package and reboot (Nope, no luck, but my background did flicker on the external monitor) - Applied patch with instructions above cat /home/myuser/Downloads/nautilus.patch | patch -p1 (Thanks kroq-gar78) - recompiled package - sudo make clean - sudo make - sudo make install - reboot - Success! Thanks again -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885989 Title: white screen on second monitor when using two xsessions Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” source package in Precise: Confirmed Bug description: If enable dual head mode (two X screens), the second monitor went white after login with unity or unity-2d. After tracking the gnome- session, it is caused by running "nautilus -n" for this configuration. And if kill the nautilus process, the desktop showed up normally on second screen. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 apt-cache policy nautilus nautilus: Installed: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://cn.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5 0 500 http://cn.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/885989/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
