Comment 132 for bug 296167

geekfreak. thank you for your efforts in documenting a fix. I have it ready for the next time and it sounds much easier! I have not had as many issues as long as I don't copy from one screen and paste to the other. I try to limit the carrying any data across screens and it has helped a lot as well.

When implementing geekfreak's idea on my machine I came across an issue that I have not paid much attention to in the past but this could be linked.

When typing 'gconf-editor' in terminal, it opens fine, however I get an error in terminal as follows:
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

This can also be duplicated with xrandr -v.

Google searches show this is a common error when upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10. In fact the first computer I tried 8.10 on, failed to install due to the RANDR extension. This computer is freshly installed but has the same file issue apparently.

Does anyone else have the same issue, or think it could be linked to this issue?