Comment 111 for bug 969489

In 13.10 on an Aspire laptop with an HDMI attached 1920x1280 monitor the background on one or the other comes up blank depending upon how I set the monitor positions. When side by side with the laptop to the right, it is the laptop screen that comes up blank. Gkrellm is supposed to come up on the top right hand corner of the laptop screen but instead it is in the top left of the external monitor. -- Behavior not evident in previous versions.

I find I can fix the background situation by changing the background, Going to a terminal session and doing a restart lightdm also works. I'll try the init script suggestions provided here to see what happens.