Confirming it's only a gnome-settings-daemon problem. Until it gets fixed, a workarround is to run xrandr manually.
For example: to have a VGA left of the main LCD laptop panel run this: $ xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output VGA --auto --left-of LVDS -- 2.27.3-0ubuntu1 update broke xrandr / Display Preferences https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387391 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs