Hello.
While trying to fix what I thought was an application program window placement problem, it turns out that the problem was that Gnome 3 seems to be detecting a display which does not seem to exist.
Clicking the Gnome "Settings" icon, then the "Displays" icon seems to show both a primary and a secondary display. But there is only one monitor and one graphics card!
The primary display is correct:
1366 x 768 resolution, 16 x 9 aspect ratio.
But even thought there is no second monitor or graphics card, "Displays" shows a secondary display as:
848 x 480 resolution, 16 x 9 aspect ratio.
So, how can I delete the non-existent secondary display. (In the good old days, "Displays" included a button to detect displays. Not now).
1) Wild guess: 848 x 480 seems like some sort of phone or tablet display, but 16 x 9 wouldn't seem to be a phone display.
2) A non-existent display - I worry: have I been hacked?
This is on an unmodified, standard, name-brand computer running up-to-date Arch 64-bit.
Op 22 apr. 2016 22:14 schreef "Francis Gerund" ranrund@gmail.com:
Hello.
While trying to fix what I thought was an application program window placement problem, it turns out that the problem was that Gnome 3 seems to be detecting a display which does not seem to exist.
Clicking the Gnome "Settings" icon, then the "Displays" icon seems to show both a primary and a secondary display. But there is only one monitor and one graphics card!
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Not a complete answer, but you could try toying with xrandr[1]. I wonder if it's some spooky hardware fault or some software (vnc, nx, etc) that "creates" the 2nd monitor.
1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xrandr
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