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Pointy
Asked: 2014-04-02 20:48:17 +0800 CST

13.10, second monitor: how do I make the "Display: HDMI1" box go away?

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I've got a new laptop on which I've installed 13.10 and I use XFCE as my desktop. I want to use the laptop with an external monitor, and that works fine, mostly. However, when I use the "Display" settings control to select the screen to use, the blue box that shows up to tell me that my external monitor is "HDMI1" does not go away after I've set things up. Here's what it looks like: screenshot

It won't go away. I've dismissed the "Display" settings application, but the thing is still there. What is going on?

Overall the XFCE display chooser seems to work much, much worse in 13.10 than in 13.04. It's a crapshoot whether it can re-enable the laptop display or not. I can do it reliably with xrandr, so I don't think it's a low-level problem.

edit If I turn the external monitor off with xrandr and then back on, the stupid thing comes back.

13.10

1 Answers

  1. Ah. I found it. A zombie-like stray copy of xfce4-display-settings was stuck somehow. I found it (via ps axf) and killed it, and the thing went away.

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