Monitor hotplugging causes black screen in external display

Bug #1679626 reported by Victor gonzalez
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Bug Description

Story: I connected my hdmi monitor with unity8 running but all I got is a black screen in the external display, I can still use the laptop though.

Environment: unity8-deb on zesty

STEPS:

1. Log in unity8
2. Connect external display

Current result: external display is black
Expected result: external display shows desktop

tags: added: unity8-desktop
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Hot plugging works perfectly in Mir (demo servers). However Unity8 has its own policies and I know for a fact they're not implemented yet :)

affects: mir (Ubuntu) → unity8 (Ubuntu)
tags: added: multi-monitor
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