Multiple Monitors – Screen Blinking When Moving Cursor

16.04multiple-monitors

I have a dual monitor setup at work and when moving the cursor from one monitor to the other the screen blinks and sometimes gets completely black.

I've recorded a video to better show the problem:

https://vid.me/vgEE

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 (clean install). This wasn't happening in 15.10.

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Hello i had the same problem but solved it by installing latest upstream kernel from here. At this link you can find installing instruction. Right now i use 4.6.0rc4 and it works well.

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Ubuntu – Dual monitor screens are reversed only in login screen

The issue arises because the login screen configuration file is located elsewhere, and your home folder holds your personalised configuration for use after login.

I had the same gripe with Zorin.

All you need to do is either copy or symlink from your personal config file to the default lightdm config file...

To copy... (ie make an orphan copy of your config)

sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/lightdm/.config/

To symlink... (ie a LIVE link to your config, which is then used every time!)

sudo ln ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/lightdm/.config/

Both solutions are referenced in THIS POST

HTH :D

Edit: I am now using Mint 19. The monitors.xml file now appears to be in ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml

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