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I use Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Portege R600. Normally I have a flat green background (the middle choice of the custom set under wallpapers in the right-mouse-click GUI).

When I plug in a VGA monitor for two-screen usage the background on that and on the laptop screen go black. They remain black after I unplug the monitor and give the command:

xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --off

Is there a trick to maintain the green blackground, at least on the laptop screen, or at least regain it automatically on the laptop screen?

Radu Rădeanu
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An workaround will be to use the following command:

xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA1 --off && gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color "#73D216"

This will set again your background color to #73D216 (green).

Radu Rădeanu
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This bug went away when I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a new Toshiba Z930.

Rob Rutten
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