Can not set external monitor to left of internal monitor on ubuntu 17.04

[Caner Aydın]

No, i did not save it with gedit.

And never edited that file.

-rw-r--r--  1 caner caner 1842 Jul 10 14:47 monitors.xml



On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 July 2017 at 13:49, Caner Aydın <caneraydinbey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  - When i connect external, and when i go to display settings, the
> >    external is in right of internal.
> >
> >    I change in this settings by dragging, then apply to set to the left
> >    of the internal.
> >
> >    But it makes black external and i have to plug out and plugin again
> >    to be able to use external and it is again on the right of internal.
> >
> >    this is xml of monitors
> >
> >    sudo gedit ~/.config/monitors.xml
>
> Have you previously used sudo to edit that file? If so then it will be
> owned by root which may be an issue. Set it back to yourself using
> sudo chown  $USER:$USER ~/.config/monitors.xml
>
> Also using sudo with gedit (you should never do that, use gksudo with
> graphical applications) will have made various other files owned by
> root so you might be better to restore all your files ownership with
>
> sudo chown  -R $USER:$USER ~
>
> Colin
>
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