So if I understand you correctly, you downloaded 1 Ubuntu iso, put it on a USB and installed it on your laptop, and now your using the same iso and USB for your desktop and it does not work on your desktop?
On this screen, highlight “Install Ubuntu” (Ignore the red circle as this was the easiest image to find)
Press the ‘E’ key. If ‘E’ does nothing, press ‘Tab’.
You’ll see several lines of settings. Use the arrow keys to navigate down to where it says “linux”, “linuz”, “linux16” – Something like that. On that same line you’ll see quiet splash near the end. Navigate just past that section and add nomodeset
Is similar to what it’ll look like. You don’t need to delete or alter anything, just add that command after quiet splash. Don’t try and copy my gibberish above is what I’m saying lol.
Press Control and the ‘X’ key at the same time. If that does nothing, try pressing enter. Sometimes there are instructions at the bottom “Press Control + X or F10 to continue”
That should get the installer loaded. If not, there may be something else afoot.
@Dmetsys This guy is onto something. Start simple. Is it displaying the wrong monitor?
I don’t have a Ubuntu or GNOME box (running Fedora with I3), but see if you can ‘right click’ and toggle the display values. It looks like you DE is running, but maybe is “Extending” your display. See if you can toggle your “Default” display or change it to mirror or something.
If that’s a bit over your head - see if you move your mouse to the far right, top, left, and bottom to see if your “mouse disappears.” Let us know if this happens
Additionally, your specs are great to post, but you haven’t specified exactly the issue you’re having. Do you have your icons available on another screen and this is the screen shot of the second screen - and you’re expecting it to be mirrored.
I’d advise the “right click” and try to see if you can’t get to the display setting and try toggling those, or reply with specifically the issue you’re having aka “I can see the GUI, but no icons on my one monitor setup.”
I have not tracked down the issue in particular, but I believe that Xorg isn’t tracking the monitor priority correctly. This happened to me in the 18.3 builds of LM XFCE and Cinnamon. I unplugged one monitor, and was brought to the login screen.
Well I am not sure what the problem was but reading all the posts above reminded me to check my monitor cables.
Although I have multiple monitors, I have had them all unplugged for a while - But what I did find was that I had 2 cables (1 DVI 1 DP) going from my GPU into the SAME monitor. After removing one of the cables, this seemed to have fixed the problem.
Very strange but I thank you all for your help
Currently typing this from Ubuntu
