Help with display management

[Colin Law]

On 5 July 2015 at 21:23, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 5 July 2015 at 19:57, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> On 5 July 2015 at 18:45, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> > There's only one user I can log in as.  Of course I could create one, but it seems unlikely to help.
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>> >> Does Xubuntu not provide a Guest login?
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>> > Not automatically, no.  When I just redid the install (yes, I made a root goof that was worth un-doing) there was just one account in /home.
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>> Guest does not have a permanent home folder.  Logout and see whether
>> Guest is an option on the login page.  Google shows numerous hits for
>> people asking how to disable the Guest login in Xubuntu which suggests
>> that, by default, Guest is available.
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>> Colin
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> Well, I'll be snookered.  There it is.  I've been using this for years without knowing that.
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> How DO you disable it?  I'm the only user, my wife hated her one brief encounter with Linux, and I see no reason to have it.  No real problem either, but it just doesn't make sense to have.

No idea, try Google?  But why bother?

More to the point of this thread, if you logon as guest does it help
the display issue?  If yes then you have a user config issue, if not
then you have a system issue (probably).  Obviously try Guest both on
the working system and the non-working.

Colin