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desolve

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Registered: 2017-02-25

Posts: 13

Ghost display in XFCE

Hi all! After moving to the ASUS VivoMini VC65 nettop and installing Arch I noticed strange behaviour in XFCE: in display settings dialog I see two identical monitors (see screenshot below). Display is connected via VGA. If I uncheck "Mirror Displays" then my connected display shows only #2 ghost monitor, the main workspace remains on the #1 monitor

My X11 have only one config file:

[viktor@desolve-nettop ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf 
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "TearFree"  "true"
EndSection

XRandR shows only one provider:

[viktor@desolve-nettop ~]$ xrandr --listproviders 
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x48 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 6 associated providers: 0 name:Intel

I don't know what's the cause of these bug and i want to eliminate any ghost displays. It worth to say that when I used this display with laptop all worked great and without any issues. My nettop have VGA, HDMI and DisplayPort ports.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,000

Re: Ghost display in XFCE

Strange.

What does just:

xrandr

...return?

And can you post back the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml.

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desolve

Member

Registered: 2017-02-25

Posts: 13

Re: Ghost display in XFCE

Strange.

What does just:

xrandr

...return?

And can you post back the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml.

[viktor@desolve-nettop ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 340mm x 270mm
   1280x1024     60.02*+  75.02  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x512       60.00  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    75.00    66.67    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 340mm x 270mm
   1280x1024     60.02*+  75.02  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[viktor@desolve-nettop ~]$ cat ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<channel name="displays" version="1.0">
  <property name="Default" type="empty">
    <property name="eDP-1" type="string" value="1. Rogen Tech Distribution Inc 17&quot;">
      <property name="Active" type="bool" value="true"/>
      <property name="Resolution" type="string" value="1280x1024"/>
      <property name="RefreshRate" type="double" value="60.019740"/>
      <property name="Rotation" type="int" value="0"/>
      <property name="Reflection" type="string" value="0"/>
      <property name="Primary" type="bool" value="true"/>
      <property name="Position" type="empty">
        <property name="X" type="int" value="0"/>
        <property name="Y" type="int" value="0"/>
      </property>
    </property>
    <property name="DP-2" type="string" value="2. Rogen Tech Distribution Inc 17&quot;">
      <property name="Active" type="bool" value="true"/>
      <property name="Resolution" type="string" value="1280x1024"/>
      <property name="RefreshRate" type="double" value="60.019740"/>
      <property name="Rotation" type="int" value="0"/>
      <property name="Reflection" type="string" value="0"/>
      <property name="Primary" type="bool" value="false"/>
      <property name="Position" type="empty">
        <property name="X" type="int" value="0"/>
        <property name="Y" type="int" value="0"/>
      </property>
    </property>
    <property name="eDP1" type="string" value="1. Rogen Tech Distribution Inc 17&quot;">
      <property name="Active" type="bool" value="true"/>
      <property name="Resolution" type="string" value="1280x1024"/>
      <property name="RefreshRate" type="double" value="60.019740"/>
      <property name="Rotation" type="int" value="0"/>
      <property name="Reflection" type="string" value="0"/>
      <property name="Primary" type="bool" value="false"/>
      <property name="Position" type="empty">
        <property name="X" type="int" value="0"/>
        <property name="Y" type="int" value="0"/>
      </property>
    </property>
    <property name="DP2" type="string" value="2. Rogen Tech Distribution Inc 17&quot;">
      <property name="Active" type="bool" value="true"/>
      <property name="Resolution" type="string" value="1280x1024"/>
      <property name="RefreshRate" type="double" value="60.019740"/>
      <property name="Rotation" type="int" value="0"/>
      <property name="Reflection" type="string" value="0"/>
      <property name="Primary" type="bool" value="false"/>
      <property name="Position" type="empty">
        <property name="X" type="int" value="0"/>
        <property name="Y" type="int" value="0"/>
      </property>
    </property>
  </property>
  <property name="Notify" type="bool" value="true"/>
</channel>

Actually I have only one VGA, one HDMI and one DisplayPort sockets on my nettop. Can't understand why XFCE thinks that both eDP1 and DP2 are connected while my Belinea display connected only to the VGA adapter... I have no problems with this display and my previous Lenovo G570 laptop

Last edited by desolve (2017-02-26 22:22:01)