elementary / elementary/greeter
Weird Loop When in Hybrid Graphics mode with multiple monitors
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Description
## What Happened
When the NVIDIA PRIME Profile is set to On Demand (Intel GPU primary + NVIDIA GPU secondary) on my Alienware m15, the greeter enters a loop where it flashes the login screen for about 1-2 seconds and immediately goes back to showing the Alienware logo. This goes in a loop that goes onto ad nauseum. This only happens when the greeter is launched with 1 or more (tested with both a monitor on just the HDMI port as well as a monitor on both the HDMI and mini-DP port) external monitors attached.
## Expected Behavior
Greeter lets you login and functions
## Steps to Reproduce
1. Start a comparable system (presumably any laptop with NVIDIA hybrid graphics, but may or may not be more specific than that) with multiple monitors attached with the PRIME profile set to "On demand"
2. Loop begins once the Greeter starts
### Workaround
This doesn't happen when the PRIME Profile is set to "Performance" (NVIDIA GPU Only). It also doesn't happen with just the laptop's internal display is active
## Platform Information
elementary OS 6.0 Odin (fully up to date)
Alienware m15 laptop
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile laptop using NVIDIA 470 drivers
Intel UHD Graphics 630 Mobile
Multiple monitors: laptop display, Dell 27" monitor attached via HDMI, Dell 24" monitor attached via mini Display-Port
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