Workarounds: (a) Plug your monitor in before logging in; or (b) Kill and restart nautilus.
Given that the desktop selection rectangle still works while the black/flickering is happening around it, it appears the only thing that's broken is nautilus' wallpaper logic. ** Summary changed: - [Yakkety] desktop in black background on extended HDMI display + [yakkety] desktop is black and/or flickering after plugging in a second monitor ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626935 Title: [yakkety] desktop is black and/or flickering after plugging in a second monitor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1626935/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp