DisplayLink works with GNOME but not i3wm

[displaylinkuser321]

I installed the Ubuntu driver on my Pop OS system, everything is working fine with lightdm and GNOME, but when I use i3 window manager my DisplayLink displays aren't working.

Any help in getting i3wm working would be appreciated!

[gjindal]

Hi,
Were you able to solve this issue? I am also facing the same issue and I have not solved it completely. Gnome, cinnamon worked fine with DisplayLink but not i3. But I found a hack which kinda works. My Ubuntu system had auto login enabled. I think that this auto login skips start of some service in i3 whereas that does not happen in a traditional desktop environment. So I disabled the auto login and now DisplayLink also works on i3, but I have to type my password now every time on login. Did you find a better solution? If not, I hope this helps you. If you found a better solution, please let me know.

[displaylinkuser321]

Yes, for me the display just wasn't enabled. I was able to download ARandR, then right-click to enable the display and arrange it as necesary. i3 doesn't automatically setup all displays connected via DisplayLink on startup, so I would suggest saving the screen configuration as a .sh file and having it run on startup to automatically setup your displays.