MacOS – No monitor in display arrangement on Sierra / High Sierra, can’t use the third screen

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I have a strange behavior with a 3 monitor setup, 2 days ago everything was ok, then one monitor stop working and all monitors disapear from display arrangement tab. I have juste updated to High Sierra to see if it can solve anything but no.

All monitor are correctly found by system.

But I cannot access the screen on the right anymore, it's on, it shows a desktop but I cannot use it anymore. Mouse can't go to this space.

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This is what is logged when I plug the third monitor : 

Sep 29 15:52:17 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] 
(com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344006, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344006, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 69733568, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344005, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 4128829, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 69733568, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344005, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:18 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 4128829, flags: 1
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344005, flags: 4378
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 4128829, flags: 4368
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344006, flags: 4098
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 69733568, flags: 4096
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344005, flags: 4378
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 4128829, flags: 4368
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 1952344006, flags: 4098
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: ReconfigureDisplayCallback displayID: 69733568, flags: 4096
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: DisplayReconfigurationFinished
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: Display found: Color LCD (1440x900) main: 1 / openGL: 0 / active: 1 / sleep: 0 / builtin: 1 / HiDPI: 1 / displayID: 69733568
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: Display found: BenQ GL2460 (1920x1080) main: 0 / openGL: 0 / active: 1 / sleep: 0 / builtin: 0 / HiDPI: 0 / displayID: 1952344005
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer_Desktop[324]: Display found: BenQ GL2460 (1920x1080) main: 0 / openGL: 0 / active: 1 / sleep: 0 / builtin: 0 / HiDPI: 0 / displayID: 1952344006
Sep 29 15:52:19 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: DisplayReconfigurationFinished
Sep 29 15:52:20 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: Display found: LCD couleur (1440x900) main: 1 / openGL: 0 / active: 1 / sleep: 0 / builtin: 1 / HiDPI: 1 / displayID: 69733568
Sep 29 15:52:20 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: Display found: BenQ GL2460 (1920x1080) main: 0 / openGL: 0 / active: 1 / sleep: 0 / builtin: 0 / HiDPI: 0 / displayID: 1952344005
Sep 29 15:52:20 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre TeamViewer[321]: Display found: BenQ GL2460 (1920x1080) main: 0 / openGL: 0 / active: 1 / sleep: 0 / builtin: 0 / HiDPI: 0 / displayID: 1952344006
Sep 29 15:52:27 MacBook-Pro-de-Pierre com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Then I uninstall teamviewver, but still have the same problem.

Note : I have reseted NVRAM, SMC and deleted WindowServer prefs.

Any idea ?

Best Answer

After checked content of Carlo's script, I ran it and it worked like a charm. Many thx.

To complete the answer as asked by JMY2000, this is what the script does :

#!/bin/sh

echo ""
sudo echo "Reset Display Settings v. 1.0.0"
echo ""


echo "Deleting global preferences"
sudo rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist.*
sudo rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.displaylink.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.displaylink.plist.*
sudo rm -f /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist.*
sudo rm -f /private/var/db/.com.apple.iokit.graphics
sudo rm -f /private/var/db/.com.apple.iokit.graphics.*
echo ""

echo "Deleting user preferences"
for i in ~root /Users/*
do
echo $i
sudo rm -f $i/Library/Preferences/com.displaylink.USBNivoListener.plist
sudo rm -f $i/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.*.plist
sudo rm -f $i/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.*.plist.*
sudo rm -f $i/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
sudo rm -f $i/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist.*
sudo rm -rf $i/Library/Preferences/Caches
done
echo ""

echo "Resetting NVRAM"
sudo nvram -c
echo ""

echo "Done! Please restart the system"

Many thx again.

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