Workarounds: (a) Plug your monitor in before logging in; or (b) Kill and restart nautilus.
Given that the desktop selection rectangle still works while the black/flickering is happening around it, it appears the only thing that's broken is nautilus' wallpaper logic. ** Summary changed: - [Yakkety] desktop in black background on extended HDMI display + [yakkety] desktop is black and/or flickering after plugging in a second monitor ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626935 Title: [yakkety] desktop is black and/or flickering after plugging in a second monitor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1626935/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs