External Display plug-n-play in LL & other Ubuntu-based distros, revisited ...

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My previous message in that thread still stands:

[quote author=Jerry link=topic=3997.msg30202#msg30202 date=1489995832]
They use MATE and KDE so either that's the difference, or they are using newer or patched packages, or newer kernel. You'd have to ask them how they achieve this.

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It seems to me that most of this comment doesn't stand, as:
(1) I tested plug-n-play with xfce versions of both PCLOS & Manjaro (I haven't tried Mate or KDE) and,
(2) I've used both older (4.4) as well as newer (4.6, 4.9) kernels in both LL, Manjaro & PCLOS and the difference still stands, irrespective of kernel version - I did mention this already.

It seems to me, however, that your idea that PCLOS & Manjaro might be using "newer or patched packages" still stands. The difficulty here is that I don't have sufficient background linux knowledge to discuss this with the development teams of these two distros. I did try once: all I got from the PCLOS community forum was a dismissive comment that they "use magic dust"...  not very helpful.


Perhaps, someone from the LL forum, with more in-depth knowledge than myself, might try discussing this with them?

Many thanks for your continued interest in this.