Sorry for the barrage of posts, but I'm just figuring out what's going on. Ever since activating the dual monitor function (that is, whatever it was in the "gnome-display-properties" that required me to enter my password--I don't remember what exactly this was), X always starts up with the assumption that I'm using 2 monitors. The reason why things show up on some inaccessible workspace is that they are appearing on the non-existent external monitor. I've discovered that if I can guess where the window is on the imagined external monitor, I can drag it onto the actual screen.
So for some reason, X is not detecting displays on startup but is instead assuming them. As soon as I can detect the displays through gnome-display-properties, it correctly detects that I'm only using one monitor. (Although, as I mentioned, it can no longer correctly guess the monitor's maximum resolution, which it could do before I set up dual monitors.) -- Using dual monitors once results in permanently lowered screen resolution on main monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289282 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
