[GTALUG] Kernel and/or X upgrade broke my video setup

[ac]

Hi Evan :)

i did not bite as I am not that knowledgable on kde...  but as nobody
is saying anything maybe try:
mv /home/scott/.config /home/scott/oldconfig  

let us know?

Andre


On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:05:00 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I tried sending a message the other day on this but it got no bites.
> But I'm a little desperate to figure out what's happening and I've
> never been good at configuring X.
> 
> Something broke on my system and the only thing I can pin it to is a
> recent upgrade in my Linux Mint setup that involved both new kernels
> and X servers.
> 
> What's happened is that my two video screen setup, once logged in,
> does not recognize the second screen as being a different screen, so
> they now just mirror each other when I could once have then side by
> side as one big horizontal screen.
> 
> What's stranger (to me) is that when logged out (running LightDM) the
> system DOES recognize my mouse pointer going from one screen to the
> next. So somewhere it IS being recognized as a separate screen, but
> once I log in that goes away and I'm back to a mirroring situation..
> 
> ​Any suggestions!​
>