Ran into a problem earlier under Mint; when I turned my monitors off and turned them back on I found the system didn’t really like that. I’m not sure if this is related to the mesa drivers or if it just doesn’t like monitors on Displayport being turned off, but this left me no choice but to do a forced shutdown, and when I returned to my xfce desktop environment I found that my panels were not wanting to show up unless I went under the xfce panel settings. I did a quick search for the problem and found someone had a similar issue under Xubuntu. So I’m going to post the command I used just in case someone else has this issue in the future (or if I forget and want a quick reference).
Right click on your desktop and open up a terminal, then type or paste the following command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xfce4-panel
Log off and log back in, if your panels are still acting up you can try the other commands they suggest in the link I provided. This is kind of a weird bug, don’t remember this under CentOS 7 or any of the Fedora distros I’ve used in the past. Then again I’ve had quite a dramatic change in hardware as well as graphics drivers since then (Open Source vs Proprietary), hence why I’ve had to go with Mint 18.3 instead of CentOS… I’m not going back to Fedora unless some serious changes are made.
You can expect to see more Linux related postings again, in fact it’s been about three days since I last went into Windows 10. I’ve been having fun. :v: I might even make some Linux related videos. I’m not abandoning Windows 10 completely, but if I can get by on Linux with most of the programs I use under Windows everyday I figure why not? Even when I had other distros on my machines I always considered it a fun challenge to see how long I could go before booting back into Windows. My current game count under Linux at the moment is 162, and I haven’t even gotten started on DOSBox games and sourceports yet. :v:
i dont like the way display port acts like plugging in a usb device. turning off my screen was the same as unplugging a device and when turning it on again the display acted as if it was a new device and changed the resolution to something else :S
I’ve found a workaround for turning my monitors off and getting them to come back up: Under Power Settings I have it set for the monitors to go into sleep mode, but not to do anything else. That way I can download my Linux game pr0nz and sleep in the dark… well as dark as my disco tower will allow. :v: