Kernel and/or X upgrade broke my video setup

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! -- Evan Leibovitch Toronto, Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56

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@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!
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