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

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[member=411]bitsnpcs[/member]
Many thanks for your follow-up. I was very interested to see the above results of your experimentation. I use an HDMI cable (instead of VGA that you used) as it carries both sound + audio - simpler to setup as I only have one cable to think about ! However, laptops (2) & (4) don't have an inbuilt HDMI output, so I used a VGA to HDMI adaptor (brandname =eSync) for these PCs, which I bought from Amazon for about £10.

HDMI seems to work fine (i.e. plug-n-play) between any of our laptops & Samsung TV monitor, with either PCLOS-xfce or Manjaro-xfce. Issue is with the 'buntus', and distros based on them.  It's one of the reasons I have these two distros on two of my setups listed in signature below.

I hope all's well with you bitsnpcs. I got the feeling you were going through a bit of a bad patch with Linux 2 or 3 months back. Presumably that all got sorted.

With best wishes & Happy New Year
Mike