GDBus.Error when trying to enable second screen











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I connected an external screen to my laptop, but my desktop didn't automagically extend to it, as it used to do about a year ago (older version of Ubuntu).



I went to the display settings. The screen was listed there (correct resolution, brand name, etc.). But when i put the switch on 'on' and click 'apply', i get this error:




Failed to apply configuration: %s

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR_2' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/XRANDR


It's been like this for a few months now, but i'd really like to be able to use an external screen/beamer again.



Any ideas?



Thanks.










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    Try using the arandr tool, worked for me. sudo apt-get install arandr It's just a simple graphical frontend for xrandr. It's easy to use and self-explanatory.
    – Sasha Shepherd
    Feb 18 '13 at 9:08










  • I had the same issue: Tried the <code>dconf</code> route, but it crashed unexpectedly. Took Sasha Shepards advice with ARandR and it worked great. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory: 5.9 GB Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 840T Processor x 4 Graphics: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! OS Type: 32-Bit Disk: 148GB Hope this helps!
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    Aug 11 '14 at 18:22















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I connected an external screen to my laptop, but my desktop didn't automagically extend to it, as it used to do about a year ago (older version of Ubuntu).



I went to the display settings. The screen was listed there (correct resolution, brand name, etc.). But when i put the switch on 'on' and click 'apply', i get this error:




Failed to apply configuration: %s

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR_2' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/XRANDR


It's been like this for a few months now, but i'd really like to be able to use an external screen/beamer again.



Any ideas?



Thanks.










share|improve this question




















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    Try using the arandr tool, worked for me. sudo apt-get install arandr It's just a simple graphical frontend for xrandr. It's easy to use and self-explanatory.
    – Sasha Shepherd
    Feb 18 '13 at 9:08










  • I had the same issue: Tried the <code>dconf</code> route, but it crashed unexpectedly. Took Sasha Shepards advice with ARandR and it worked great. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory: 5.9 GB Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 840T Processor x 4 Graphics: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! OS Type: 32-Bit Disk: 148GB Hope this helps!
    – user314658
    Aug 11 '14 at 18:22













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I connected an external screen to my laptop, but my desktop didn't automagically extend to it, as it used to do about a year ago (older version of Ubuntu).



I went to the display settings. The screen was listed there (correct resolution, brand name, etc.). But when i put the switch on 'on' and click 'apply', i get this error:




Failed to apply configuration: %s

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR_2' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/XRANDR


It's been like this for a few months now, but i'd really like to be able to use an external screen/beamer again.



Any ideas?



Thanks.










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I connected an external screen to my laptop, but my desktop didn't automagically extend to it, as it used to do about a year ago (older version of Ubuntu).



I went to the display settings. The screen was listed there (correct resolution, brand name, etc.). But when i put the switch on 'on' and click 'apply', i get this error:




Failed to apply configuration: %s

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR_2' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/XRANDR


It's been like this for a few months now, but i'd really like to be able to use an external screen/beamer again.



Any ideas?



Thanks.







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    Try using the arandr tool, worked for me. sudo apt-get install arandr It's just a simple graphical frontend for xrandr. It's easy to use and self-explanatory.
    – Sasha Shepherd
    Feb 18 '13 at 9:08










  • I had the same issue: Tried the <code>dconf</code> route, but it crashed unexpectedly. Took Sasha Shepards advice with ARandR and it worked great. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory: 5.9 GB Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 840T Processor x 4 Graphics: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! OS Type: 32-Bit Disk: 148GB Hope this helps!
    – user314658
    Aug 11 '14 at 18:22














  • 1




    Try using the arandr tool, worked for me. sudo apt-get install arandr It's just a simple graphical frontend for xrandr. It's easy to use and self-explanatory.
    – Sasha Shepherd
    Feb 18 '13 at 9:08










  • I had the same issue: Tried the <code>dconf</code> route, but it crashed unexpectedly. Took Sasha Shepards advice with ARandR and it worked great. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory: 5.9 GB Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 840T Processor x 4 Graphics: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! OS Type: 32-Bit Disk: 148GB Hope this helps!
    – user314658
    Aug 11 '14 at 18:22








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Try using the arandr tool, worked for me. sudo apt-get install arandr It's just a simple graphical frontend for xrandr. It's easy to use and self-explanatory.
– Sasha Shepherd
Feb 18 '13 at 9:08




Try using the arandr tool, worked for me. sudo apt-get install arandr It's just a simple graphical frontend for xrandr. It's easy to use and self-explanatory.
– Sasha Shepherd
Feb 18 '13 at 9:08












I had the same issue: Tried the <code>dconf</code> route, but it crashed unexpectedly. Took Sasha Shepards advice with ARandR and it worked great. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory: 5.9 GB Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 840T Processor x 4 Graphics: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! OS Type: 32-Bit Disk: 148GB Hope this helps!
– user314658
Aug 11 '14 at 18:22




I had the same issue: Tried the <code>dconf</code> route, but it crashed unexpectedly. Took Sasha Shepards advice with ARandR and it worked great. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Memory: 5.9 GB Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 840T Processor x 4 Graphics: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! OS Type: 32-Bit Disk: 148GB Hope this helps!
– user314658
Aug 11 '14 at 18:22










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dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true did nothing and arandr looks pretty incomprehensible to me.
If you are otherwise stymied, it is worth giving xrandr a try. The documentation is here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#First_discover_what_we_have



And I was able to fix this by doing:



xrandr --current
xrandr --output VGA1 --off
xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


Let me explain these:



The first command is to see what displays I have connected.



$ xrandr --current
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm
1280x800 60.0*+
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
VGA1 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
1920x1080 60.0*+
1280x1024 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x800 59.8
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 70.1 60.0
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


There is much extraneous data, but I only need the names of the two displays. I see:



LVDS1 connected


and



VGA1 connected


And I think it is safe to assume that VGA is the external monitor. So then I turn it off



xrandr --output VGA1 --off


and back on again



xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


and when I move my cursor to the right edge of the laptop screen, it appears on the external monitor. Success.






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    Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
    – Zlatty
    Jan 30 '14 at 21:44










  • Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
    – moodboom
    Feb 22 '15 at 15:13












  • Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
    – Jeffrey Blattman
    Feb 28 at 17:10


















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Calling:



dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true


solved the problem for me.



Depending on your graphics card, its specific configuration tool can do the dual screen configuration too e.g. nvidia-settings, ... an






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  • Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
    – Sheldon
    Oct 30 '12 at 14:10










  • Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
    – Philippe Delteil
    Jun 2 at 1:30


















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I came here having issues on display settings after installing Cinnamon in Xubuntu. Doing so gave me two "displays" dialogs, the ubuntu one giving me the gdbus error. Open the other one (Cinnamon) to get it right.



https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/2506#issuecomment-26671162 - thanks






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    For me installing the gnome-shell desktop and once switch to that and change this setting from there resolved the issue for unity as well.






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    • You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
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      Aug 10 '13 at 21:26


















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    Try disabling the graphics card drivers, restart, try if it works.



    After booting on a live usb and managed to do exactly what I want with the displays (laptop screen on the left- external monitor on the right), I concluded that something must be going on with the drivers of my graphics card. So I disabled them via System Settings>Additional Drivers, rebooted and everything worked as I wanted to.



    PS:Tried most of the above, did not seem to work for me.



    Hope it helps you too.






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      I had the same using Settings > Display on 12.04 LTS.



      It seems the Gnome Settings Daemon needs to be active for the changes to take effect, and I had accidentally turned it off from the Startup Applications.



      Hope this helps.






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        Restarting gnome-settings-daemon fixed it for me:



        gnome-settings-daemon --replace > /dev/null 2>&1 &





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          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true did nothing and arandr looks pretty incomprehensible to me.
          If you are otherwise stymied, it is worth giving xrandr a try. The documentation is here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#First_discover_what_we_have



          And I was able to fix this by doing:



          xrandr --current
          xrandr --output VGA1 --off
          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          Let me explain these:



          The first command is to see what displays I have connected.



          $ xrandr --current
          Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
          LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm
          1280x800 60.0*+
          1024x768 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 59.9
          VGA1 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
          1920x1080 60.0*+
          1280x1024 60.0
          1440x900 59.9
          1280x800 59.8
          1152x864 75.0
          1024x768 70.1 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 66.7 60.0
          720x400 70.1
          HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
          DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


          There is much extraneous data, but I only need the names of the two displays. I see:



          LVDS1 connected


          and



          VGA1 connected


          And I think it is safe to assume that VGA is the external monitor. So then I turn it off



          xrandr --output VGA1 --off


          and back on again



          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          and when I move my cursor to the right edge of the laptop screen, it appears on the external monitor. Success.






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            Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
            – Zlatty
            Jan 30 '14 at 21:44










          • Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
            – moodboom
            Feb 22 '15 at 15:13












          • Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
            – Jeffrey Blattman
            Feb 28 at 17:10















          up vote
          30
          down vote



          +50










          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true did nothing and arandr looks pretty incomprehensible to me.
          If you are otherwise stymied, it is worth giving xrandr a try. The documentation is here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#First_discover_what_we_have



          And I was able to fix this by doing:



          xrandr --current
          xrandr --output VGA1 --off
          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          Let me explain these:



          The first command is to see what displays I have connected.



          $ xrandr --current
          Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
          LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm
          1280x800 60.0*+
          1024x768 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 59.9
          VGA1 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
          1920x1080 60.0*+
          1280x1024 60.0
          1440x900 59.9
          1280x800 59.8
          1152x864 75.0
          1024x768 70.1 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 66.7 60.0
          720x400 70.1
          HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
          DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


          There is much extraneous data, but I only need the names of the two displays. I see:



          LVDS1 connected


          and



          VGA1 connected


          And I think it is safe to assume that VGA is the external monitor. So then I turn it off



          xrandr --output VGA1 --off


          and back on again



          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          and when I move my cursor to the right edge of the laptop screen, it appears on the external monitor. Success.






          share|improve this answer

















          • 1




            Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
            – Zlatty
            Jan 30 '14 at 21:44










          • Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
            – moodboom
            Feb 22 '15 at 15:13












          • Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
            – Jeffrey Blattman
            Feb 28 at 17:10













          up vote
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          up vote
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          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true did nothing and arandr looks pretty incomprehensible to me.
          If you are otherwise stymied, it is worth giving xrandr a try. The documentation is here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#First_discover_what_we_have



          And I was able to fix this by doing:



          xrandr --current
          xrandr --output VGA1 --off
          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          Let me explain these:



          The first command is to see what displays I have connected.



          $ xrandr --current
          Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
          LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm
          1280x800 60.0*+
          1024x768 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 59.9
          VGA1 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
          1920x1080 60.0*+
          1280x1024 60.0
          1440x900 59.9
          1280x800 59.8
          1152x864 75.0
          1024x768 70.1 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 66.7 60.0
          720x400 70.1
          HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
          DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


          There is much extraneous data, but I only need the names of the two displays. I see:



          LVDS1 connected


          and



          VGA1 connected


          And I think it is safe to assume that VGA is the external monitor. So then I turn it off



          xrandr --output VGA1 --off


          and back on again



          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          and when I move my cursor to the right edge of the laptop screen, it appears on the external monitor. Success.






          share|improve this answer












          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true did nothing and arandr looks pretty incomprehensible to me.
          If you are otherwise stymied, it is worth giving xrandr a try. The documentation is here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#First_discover_what_we_have



          And I was able to fix this by doing:



          xrandr --current
          xrandr --output VGA1 --off
          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          Let me explain these:



          The first command is to see what displays I have connected.



          $ xrandr --current
          Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
          LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm
          1280x800 60.0*+
          1024x768 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 59.9
          VGA1 connected 1920x1080+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm
          1920x1080 60.0*+
          1280x1024 60.0
          1440x900 59.9
          1280x800 59.8
          1152x864 75.0
          1024x768 70.1 60.0
          800x600 60.3 56.2
          640x480 66.7 60.0
          720x400 70.1
          HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
          DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


          There is much extraneous data, but I only need the names of the two displays. I see:



          LVDS1 connected


          and



          VGA1 connected


          And I think it is safe to assume that VGA is the external monitor. So then I turn it off



          xrandr --output VGA1 --off


          and back on again



          xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1


          and when I move my cursor to the right edge of the laptop screen, it appears on the external monitor. Success.







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            Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
            – Zlatty
            Jan 30 '14 at 21:44










          • Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
            – moodboom
            Feb 22 '15 at 15:13












          • Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
            – Jeffrey Blattman
            Feb 28 at 17:10














          • 1




            Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
            – Zlatty
            Jan 30 '14 at 21:44










          • Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
            – moodboom
            Feb 22 '15 at 15:13












          • Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
            – Jeffrey Blattman
            Feb 28 at 17:10








          1




          1




          Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
          – Zlatty
          Jan 30 '14 at 21:44




          Thank you so much for explaining this in a very simple nature. You've made my life so much better knowing that I can run these three commands to get my displays to work right.
          – Zlatty
          Jan 30 '14 at 21:44












          Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
          – moodboom
          Feb 22 '15 at 15:13






          Thanks, worked here with Ubuntu 14.10 and i3. I have two monitors, and lost one. I did this in one step since I was worried about killing the wrong one: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --off && xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
          – moodboom
          Feb 22 '15 at 15:13














          Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
          – Jeffrey Blattman
          Feb 28 at 17:10




          Doing --off and subsequently --auto worked for me. Now how to make this permanent...
          – Jeffrey Blattman
          Feb 28 at 17:10












          up vote
          6
          down vote













          Calling:



          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true


          solved the problem for me.



          Depending on your graphics card, its specific configuration tool can do the dual screen configuration too e.g. nvidia-settings, ... an






          share|improve this answer





















          • Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
            – Sheldon
            Oct 30 '12 at 14:10










          • Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
            – Philippe Delteil
            Jun 2 at 1:30















          up vote
          6
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          Calling:



          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true


          solved the problem for me.



          Depending on your graphics card, its specific configuration tool can do the dual screen configuration too e.g. nvidia-settings, ... an






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          • Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
            – Sheldon
            Oct 30 '12 at 14:10










          • Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
            – Philippe Delteil
            Jun 2 at 1:30













          up vote
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          up vote
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          down vote









          Calling:



          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true


          solved the problem for me.



          Depending on your graphics card, its specific configuration tool can do the dual screen configuration too e.g. nvidia-settings, ... an






          share|improve this answer












          Calling:



          dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active true


          solved the problem for me.



          Depending on your graphics card, its specific configuration tool can do the dual screen configuration too e.g. nvidia-settings, ... an







          share|improve this answer












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          answered Sep 7 '12 at 9:52









          Matthias

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          • Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
            – Sheldon
            Oct 30 '12 at 14:10










          • Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
            – Philippe Delteil
            Jun 2 at 1:30


















          • Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
            – Sheldon
            Oct 30 '12 at 14:10










          • Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
            – Philippe Delteil
            Jun 2 at 1:30
















          Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
          – Sheldon
          Oct 30 '12 at 14:10




          Wow, I had the same issue and this worked for me, thanks!
          – Sheldon
          Oct 30 '12 at 14:10












          Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
          – Philippe Delteil
          Jun 2 at 1:30




          Just magic. How this works? Is it a permanent solution?
          – Philippe Delteil
          Jun 2 at 1:30










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          I came here having issues on display settings after installing Cinnamon in Xubuntu. Doing so gave me two "displays" dialogs, the ubuntu one giving me the gdbus error. Open the other one (Cinnamon) to get it right.



          https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/2506#issuecomment-26671162 - thanks






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            I came here having issues on display settings after installing Cinnamon in Xubuntu. Doing so gave me two "displays" dialogs, the ubuntu one giving me the gdbus error. Open the other one (Cinnamon) to get it right.



            https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/2506#issuecomment-26671162 - thanks






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              up vote
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              up vote
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              I came here having issues on display settings after installing Cinnamon in Xubuntu. Doing so gave me two "displays" dialogs, the ubuntu one giving me the gdbus error. Open the other one (Cinnamon) to get it right.



              https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/2506#issuecomment-26671162 - thanks






              share|improve this answer












              I came here having issues on display settings after installing Cinnamon in Xubuntu. Doing so gave me two "displays" dialogs, the ubuntu one giving me the gdbus error. Open the other one (Cinnamon) to get it right.



              https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/2506#issuecomment-26671162 - thanks







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              answered Nov 21 '13 at 9:34









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                  For me installing the gnome-shell desktop and once switch to that and change this setting from there resolved the issue for unity as well.






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                  • You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
                    – Gaurav Agarwal
                    Aug 10 '13 at 21:26















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                  For me installing the gnome-shell desktop and once switch to that and change this setting from there resolved the issue for unity as well.






                  share|improve this answer





















                  • You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
                    – Gaurav Agarwal
                    Aug 10 '13 at 21:26













                  up vote
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                  up vote
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                  For me installing the gnome-shell desktop and once switch to that and change this setting from there resolved the issue for unity as well.






                  share|improve this answer












                  For me installing the gnome-shell desktop and once switch to that and change this setting from there resolved the issue for unity as well.







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                  answered Feb 6 '13 at 11:31









                  mohs

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                  • You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
                    – Gaurav Agarwal
                    Aug 10 '13 at 21:26


















                  • You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
                    – Gaurav Agarwal
                    Aug 10 '13 at 21:26
















                  You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
                  – Gaurav Agarwal
                  Aug 10 '13 at 21:26




                  You should add more details to your answer. Like how to install gnome-shell desktop. Should we keep unity and gnome-shell both installed or remove them after setting? Where should the setting be done after installing gnome-shell desktop?
                  – Gaurav Agarwal
                  Aug 10 '13 at 21:26










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                  Try disabling the graphics card drivers, restart, try if it works.



                  After booting on a live usb and managed to do exactly what I want with the displays (laptop screen on the left- external monitor on the right), I concluded that something must be going on with the drivers of my graphics card. So I disabled them via System Settings>Additional Drivers, rebooted and everything worked as I wanted to.



                  PS:Tried most of the above, did not seem to work for me.



                  Hope it helps you too.






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                    Try disabling the graphics card drivers, restart, try if it works.



                    After booting on a live usb and managed to do exactly what I want with the displays (laptop screen on the left- external monitor on the right), I concluded that something must be going on with the drivers of my graphics card. So I disabled them via System Settings>Additional Drivers, rebooted and everything worked as I wanted to.



                    PS:Tried most of the above, did not seem to work for me.



                    Hope it helps you too.






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                      up vote
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                      up vote
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                      Try disabling the graphics card drivers, restart, try if it works.



                      After booting on a live usb and managed to do exactly what I want with the displays (laptop screen on the left- external monitor on the right), I concluded that something must be going on with the drivers of my graphics card. So I disabled them via System Settings>Additional Drivers, rebooted and everything worked as I wanted to.



                      PS:Tried most of the above, did not seem to work for me.



                      Hope it helps you too.






                      share|improve this answer












                      Try disabling the graphics card drivers, restart, try if it works.



                      After booting on a live usb and managed to do exactly what I want with the displays (laptop screen on the left- external monitor on the right), I concluded that something must be going on with the drivers of my graphics card. So I disabled them via System Settings>Additional Drivers, rebooted and everything worked as I wanted to.



                      PS:Tried most of the above, did not seem to work for me.



                      Hope it helps you too.







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                      answered Dec 1 '13 at 15:55









                      george

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                          I had the same using Settings > Display on 12.04 LTS.



                          It seems the Gnome Settings Daemon needs to be active for the changes to take effect, and I had accidentally turned it off from the Startup Applications.



                          Hope this helps.






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                            I had the same using Settings > Display on 12.04 LTS.



                            It seems the Gnome Settings Daemon needs to be active for the changes to take effect, and I had accidentally turned it off from the Startup Applications.



                            Hope this helps.






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                              up vote
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                              up vote
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                              I had the same using Settings > Display on 12.04 LTS.



                              It seems the Gnome Settings Daemon needs to be active for the changes to take effect, and I had accidentally turned it off from the Startup Applications.



                              Hope this helps.






                              share|improve this answer












                              I had the same using Settings > Display on 12.04 LTS.



                              It seems the Gnome Settings Daemon needs to be active for the changes to take effect, and I had accidentally turned it off from the Startup Applications.



                              Hope this helps.







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                              answered Apr 19 '14 at 23:15









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                                  Restarting gnome-settings-daemon fixed it for me:



                                  gnome-settings-daemon --replace > /dev/null 2>&1 &





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                                    Restarting gnome-settings-daemon fixed it for me:



                                    gnome-settings-daemon --replace > /dev/null 2>&1 &





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                                      up vote
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                                      up vote
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                                      Restarting gnome-settings-daemon fixed it for me:



                                      gnome-settings-daemon --replace > /dev/null 2>&1 &





                                      share|improve this answer












                                      Restarting gnome-settings-daemon fixed it for me:



                                      gnome-settings-daemon --replace > /dev/null 2>&1 &






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                                      answered May 13 '14 at 13:15









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