Fred, I am running Mint 17 XFCE, and have recent experiences with my PC, and a HDTV. Also, I've used a relatives ancient Dell, also running Mint 17, to play well w/ a HDTV. W/ my PC, I used an HDMI cable, w/ my relatives a VGA cable. Both PCs worked well, but I did have to use the TV remote control options to try to get the full PC display on the TV, but was not 100% exact. There is a difference how some TVs can be modified to match PC output. It is difficult to say how to help, but I have found I needed both PCs on, before I switched the TV on to work. However, both systems did work well. In the past, I have tried to change resolutions w/ xrandr . But, had no real success, and I would be careful here. Does your system work at home? John On 08/17/2014 10:23 PM, Fred Fifield wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I have Mint 17 loaded on my HP Pavillion dv7 (1273d) and this is the > first time I've taken it out on the road. I'm in a hotel and want to > watch a dvd movie that will play on my laptop on the nice HDTV in my > hotel. I hooked the HDMI cable from my computer to the TV and switched > the TV output to the correct setting. The desktop background shows up > on the TV but nothing else does, no taskbar, no icons, no mouse > pointer. Just the background. It seems like this should be something > easy but I can't figure out what it is. > > I went into the display setting thinking my issue might be there. The > TV I'm plugged into shows up there but that's it. I've tried googling > for an answer but I don't seem to be able to phrase my request > properly because I keep getting responses for no sound. > > Anyway, any help you give will be appreciated. Thank you. > > Fred > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss