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I was upgrading my desktop so I had my monitor plugged into my laptop. When I finished I pulled the monitor and plugged it into my desktop. Now when i boot my laptop I get the Fedora 14 background, but no toolbar along the bottom or toolbox in the top right. If I right click I can open the Konsole, but it seems to open offscreen.
So I can reboot in failsafe mode and get a terminal window, but that's it. What can I do from here? I am running Fedora 14 KDE 4.x Lenovo laptop |
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If you create a new user, does this behaviour occur there as well? Your system seems convinced that it has a display where there is none.
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I'm guessing it's your ~/.kde4/share/config/krandrrc or ~/.kde/share/config/krandrrc (depending on distribution) and it's still thinking the monitor is connected
you can try renaming it in failsafe mode then restarting kde remember I'm just guessing and I don't have a 2nd screen to hook up and test so............ |
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If I log in as root or another user, the desktop looks fine. It's just my user account this is happening on. @Google01103; Hey, it gives me something to look into. I appreciate the input. |
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Fantastic, so I wake up this morning and my desktop is doing something very similar!
So just to bring everyone to speed here, I just bought a new mobo ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 that has an onboard Radeon HD 4200. I have two monitors an Acer H243H (running on DVI) and and Acer AL1917W (running on VGA). Now everything was fine when I was just running the DVI , but after I plugged in the VGA things started to go wonky. The VGA seems to force itself to be the primary monitor, I couldn't find where to swtich this sot the DVI is the primary. The logon screen is on the VGA. The orientation was backwards. So what ever, I put the bar on the left side and reoriented the monitors. I can live with that. Now I wake up this morning and the machine boots up and KDE/Ferdora acts like DVI is not even there. I shutdown, unplug and replug both connectors, boot back up and now everything comes up, except my task bar along the bottom. There is this jumble of blur along the left side of the VGA. I can right click and open the Konsole, but I canno see it. It's as if it's offscren and I can reboot the machine. But when I log in as Root user, the desktop is fine, well except for the positions being off. Oh and btw @google01103, my path is definitely ~/.kde/share/config/krandrrc, but krandrrc is not in there. |
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maybe it's a Nvidia thing for the krandrrc file? Got to be a config file that's messing you up
try searching the ~/.kde/share/config/ directory using kfind all files (*) and contents tab containing text [Screen_0] |
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So one thing, on the desktop I could log in as the my user and right click the run command. From there I could get he application launcher and the display and monitor from system settings. It seems that it was set as if VGA-0 and DVI-0 position were both set to absolute. When I changed DVI-0 to "to the left of" everything went back to the way it was supposed to for 14 seconds, then bliped off. I couldn't see that little "accept changes" window.
Anyway, ok it's kcmrandrrc. So I pulled that up and I get for my main user, [Display] ApplyOnStartup=true StartupCommands=xrandr --output "LVDS1" --pos 0x1080 --mode 1280x800 --refresh 60.0006\nxrandr --output "VGA1" --pos 0x0 --mode 1920x1080 --refresh 59.9339 [Screen_0] OutputsUnified=false UnifiedRect=0,0,0,0 UnifiedRotation=1 [Screen_0_Output_LVDS1] Active=true Rect=0,960,1280,800 RefreshRate=60.0005645751953 Rotation=1 [Screen_0_Output_VGA1] Active=true Rect=0,0,1280,960 RefreshRate=60 Rotation=1 I have a backup of this. I renamed it to kcmrandrrc.old. Rebooted. Same issue. I removed this from the file: nxrandr --output "VGA1" --pos 0x0 --mode 1920x1080 --refresh 59.9339 and this [Screen_0_Output_VGA1] Active=true Rect=0,0,1280,960 RefreshRate=60 Rotation=1 Rebooted, but no change. |
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maybe change Active=true to Active=false ?
I think you should rename or start a new thread with the subject a little more descriptive of the problem as it's more graphics and video out then desktop (hardware even) with the laptop what happens if you plug in the monitor and then boot? on the desktop, in the bios can you turn off the integrated graphics processor? on the desktop what happens if you plug the monitor into the other output? |
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try reinstalling you graphics drivers
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My god this thing is jacked. Clearly whatever KDE I'm running doesn't handle two monitors so well.
I'm just going back to the laptop, ignore the desktop, I'm going to flat out reinstall the desktop because now root won't even save the display settings from the last session. Laptop Ok so originally when all this started I tried to just plug the VGA back into my laptop. No dice. Now if I plug the VGA back into my laptop and reboot, I get my original desktop as it is supposed to be on the laptop screen (LVDS1). Perfect right, no. On the 19” monitor I get the fedora background AND a KDE bar with the K logo and all my open windows. Konsole, OpenOffice Writer, Virtualbox, etc. So I have two toolbars. WTF? Now, if I goto system settings > display and monitor> I see the two monitors. I goto VGA and select size> disable and the VGA goes black. Good right, no. Reboot with the VGA unplugged and the laptop display LVDS1 allows me to log in to the Fedora background image, no tool bar. If I right click and select Konsole it still opens offscreen. So the next thing I try is just unplugging the VGA which works till I reboot and same issue. I need to use a working machine tonight so I'm not going to do any more troubleshooting. However as soon as I get a chance, I'm going to switch that Active=false. Thanks for all the suggestions google01103. I really do appreciate it. |
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