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

[Liam Proven]

On 10 July 2017 at 18:53, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Been more accustomed to KDE myself.... when I first connected my TV as
> secondary on HDMI and set it to mirror, and then disconnected it again, both
> screens went black and I had to reboot the machine to get a visual back.
>

This sometimes works:

Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a virtual console.
Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to X.11

This resets the console into text mode and back into graphics mode,
clearing up some glitches and issues.

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