Help with display management

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I did try it, and it made no difference.  Just the two monitors working.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 July 2015 at 21:23, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 5 July 2015 at 19:57, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On 5 July 2015 at 18:45, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There's only one user I can log in as.  Of course I could create
> one, but it seems unlikely to help.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Does Xubuntu not provide a Guest login?
> >> >>
> >> >> Colin
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Not automatically, no.  When I just redid the install (yes, I made a
> root goof that was worth un-doing) there was just one account in /home.
> >>
> >> Guest does not have a permanent home folder.  Logout and see whether
> >> Guest is an option on the login page.  Google shows numerous hits for
> >> people asking how to disable the Guest login in Xubuntu which suggests
> >> that, by default, Guest is available.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> > Well, I'll be snookered.  There it is.  I've been using this for years
> without knowing that.
> >
> > How DO you disable it?  I'm the only user, my wife hated her one brief
> encounter with Linux, and I see no reason to have it.  No real problem
> either, but it just doesn't make sense to have.
>
> No idea, try Google?  But why bother?
>
> More to the point of this thread, if you logon as guest does it help
> the display issue?  If yes then you have a user config issue, if not
> then you have a system issue (probably).  Obviously try Guest both on
> the working system and the non-working.
>
> Colin
>
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