It seemed to be related to pulseaudio and gnome-settings-daemon because installing pulseaudio fixed it. Gnome-settings-daemon was not running because of pulseaudio and when trying to apply the settings in gnome- display-properties it would not work because the gnome-settings-daemon not running.
-- gnome-display-properties checkbox "Show displays in panel" does nothing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/408854 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
