Desktop Not Displaying Properly After Each Reboot

[toady2]

I'm very sorry the title is vague, it's just I really don't know explain it in a short title. I have an external monitor (ViewSonic) connected to my netbook running Lubuntu 13.04. I go to my monitor settings and I do the following: Turn VGA display on then turn DVI display off and change the resolution of the VGA to auto. By the way I have to say this even though it's not the main problem, the reason why i said i turn VGA on THEN turn DVI off is that if I check the two boxes at once and save then both my screens are blank so I have to restart each time. Anyway back to the main problem. After I change the resolution to auto and click save and apply I get the Desktop entitled as (Desktop Proper.jpg in the attachments). But after I restart my computer I get the desktop entitled as (Desktop Messed Up.jpg in the attachments). Does anyone know why? Also one thing to note if i drag my mouse to select everything in the Desktop I can only cover the black portion of the desktop in the messed up desktop, not the coloured wallpaper part. Thank you very much . This issue is driving me crazy cause I have to change my Desktop settings each time. By the way my wallpaper is just black solid colour not the coloured part you see. I don't know why it's showing up.

[eternal243]

I'm very sorry the title is vague, it's just I really don't know explain it in a short title. I have an external monitor (ViewSonic) connected to my netbook running Lubuntu 13.04. I go to my monitor settings and I do the following: Turn VGA display on then turn DVI display off and change the resolution of the VGA to auto. By the way I have to say this even though it's not the main problem, the reason why i said i turn VGA on THEN turn DVI off is that if I check the two boxes at once and save then both my screens are blank so I have to restart each time. Anyway back to the main problem. After I change the resolution to auto and click save and apply I get the Desktop entitled as (Desktop Proper.jpg in the attachments). But after I restart my computer I get the desktop entitled as (Desktop Messed Up.jpg in the attachments). Does anyone know why? Also one thing to note if i drag my mouse to select everything in the Desktop I can only cover the black portion of the desktop in the messed up desktop, not the coloured wallpaper part. Thank you very much . This issue is driving me crazy cause I have to change my Desktop settings each time. By the way my wallpaper is just black solid colour not the coloured part you see. I don't know why it's showing up.

Interesting problem, I have no idea what is happening here and I have never used Lubuntu or any other distro with the LXDE desktop environment.

But try to following command in terminal and repost the output.

lspci | grep VGA

We have to start somewhere and this will list what graphics cards you have in your computer.

[toady2]

From

lspci | grep VGA

I get

 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller

I should also note something. After I get my messed up desktop I found another way to get back to the normal desktop. I change to 720 * 400 click apply then back to 1280 * 1024 I get proper desktop. This only works for very low resolution. It does not work if i change to 1280 * 960 then back to 1280 * 1024. I'm so confused...

[eternal243]

From

lspci | grep VGA

I get

 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller

Hmm, integrated graphics only, what about this command?

sudo lshw

It will output a detailed list of all your hardware.

Also, you said the you got an external monitor connected to your netbook, but do you have the same problem if you disconnect the external monitor? Just using netbook display?

[toady2]

Results related to display

 *-pci          description: Host bridge
          product: Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx DMI Bridge
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
          resources: irq:0
        *-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:44 memory:98180000-981fffff ioport:60c0(size=8) memory:80000000-8fffffff memory:98000000-980fffff
        *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Display controller
             product: Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:98100000-9817ffff

Nop, I don't get this issue with Netbook display but the display does mess up after i connect my monitor and restart. The same issue where parts are black wallpaper and here and parts of the coloured wallpaper there on my netbook and external.

[sceptre78]

Ok, this may sound stupid but it look like its trying to run 2 DE's on one screen....
Also shouldnt the config on both be using the same driver?

*-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:44 memory:98180000-981fffff ioport:60c0(size=8) memory:80000000-8fffffff memory:98000000-980fffff
        *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Display controller
             product: Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:98100000-9817ffff

do this and post the results

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Doh! nevermind Ubuntu doesnt use an xorg.conf file anymore.

[toady2]

no no that doesn't sound stupid Becase if i right click on the black part of the screen i get a different menu than i when i right click on the coloured part. When I click on the coloured part I get a menu that OpenBox has provided on top of lxde but when I click on the black part I only get the LXDE menu. Even though openbox is just a windows manager so it couldn't be two different DE but something along that line.

I'm sorry I don't have that file called xorg.conf

This is all I have

app-defaults             rgb.txt  Xreset      Xsession.ddefault-display-manager  X        Xreset.d    Xsession.options
fonts                    xinit    Xresources  XvMCConfig
openbox                  xkb      Xsession    Xwrapper.config

*EDITED*
Oh okay

[toady2]

So anyone has any idea? So it appears that there are two things running everytime I reboot. LXDE is running and Openbox is apparently adding it's own menu as well because if I right click on the coloured wallpaper openbox menu is showing up and the black part only shows LXDE'S menu.

I've added two pics to explain how it differs. Note i didn't create the second new folder it just appeared. It's exactly the same folder as the other new folder just duplicated for some reason and if i drag my mouse to select it, the folder then disappears but the original folder on the top left remains.

[eternal243]

Well I can't help any more with this since I have no experience with either LXDE or Openbox, but at least we have narrowed down the problem a little bit. Hopefully someone else can help you out! I will follow the thread though since the problem itself is kind of interesting!

[toady2]

That's okay, Thanks for trying