You have been subscribed to a public bug: How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the display settings to match the unity display settings in the other DE Unplug and plug the 2nd monitor while on X DE Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error.
When I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot). ** Affects: mir Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Status: Triaged ** Tags: multimonitor -- multimonitor fails to render the screen correctly when both Xmir and X are running and produces "cannot switch monitor configuration" error notification https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234679 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