Wow, what a day. Hoping for relieve on this bug I apt-get install'ed xfce. It has the same problem with a crashing settings-deamon (it has its own). And I noticed that even xrandr just crashed on, what I think, where completely sane inputs with a floating point exception. And I did not really like the output of xrandr showing LVDS2, LVDS-1-0, VGA-1-1, VGA2 with at least three of them always in a connected state. My impression is that this is a source for confusion. The reason may be that my laptop has what I reckon is hybrid graphics, i.e. two graphics cards:
% lspci |grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV635/M86 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650] Then I noticed that I had not installed fglrx. I apt-get install'ed it, rebooted, logged into gnome3 as well as xfce, fixed the display settings to my likings, rebooted, logged in and, wow, it is still there. The remarkable part about xrandr output: It has now LVDS1, VGA1, LVDS-1-1, VGA-1-1, but no '2' and only the first two are listed as connected. So in the end it seems this is rather a bug of whatever Xorg driver was superseeded by fglrx (I am not at all an expert of these drivers of X). I wonder if all others affected by this bug have hybrid graphics too. Lets see if the settings survive one more reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1292398 Title: Second screen position isn't saved from one session to another Status in elementary OS: Confirmed Status in Gnome Settings Daemon: New Status in GNOME Shell: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu GNOME: Confirmed Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: (Noticed on Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 GNOME) At work I have a second screen, which I prefer to virtually put on the left side of my laptop screen. Using gnome-control-center I can change the position of the second without problem. But when I disconnect the second screen (to work on another place) and then connect it again OR if I just power off the laptop and turn it on again, the second screen position is set back to the default right position. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Mar 14 08:50:00 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-01 (12 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140226) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 29.5-0ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1292398/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
