On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/8/21 5:07 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > > Did this happen after an update of the video driver? > > No. This morning I was using ENU-2 as my main desktop machine. After > lunch I shut down both ENU-2 and ENU-1 and swapped boxes. All the > peripherals stayed where they were. Both machines have a keyboard, > mouse, speakers, and two monitors. So all the stuff that had been on > ENU-2 are now connected to ENU-1, and vice versa. ENU-1 is up and > running Xubuntu 20.04, mostly as I expect it to. ENU-2, not so much. > > > Does alt-F1 give you a real text login screen with the word login there? > > That should probably be ctrl-alt-F1 > > Yes, ctrl-alt-F1 does give me a real text login screen, after the > Xubuntu splash screen goes away. I am able to login there. I'm told that > there are 7 packages that can be uploaded. apt list --upgradable tells > me one is a gnome-sudoku, and the other 6 are bionic-security upgrades. > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens
I don't know what the problem is, but I am still guessing that it is some problem with the display settings that is not automatically fixed by going back to one screen. There are some good suggestions here https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=10730 I will summarize the part that might work. >From the terminal where you logged in sudo service lightdm stop rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml sudo service lightdm start alt-F7 or perhaps instead of alt-F7 sudo shutdown -r now Bill Barry _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
