After many trials...
installed fresh ubuntu 1704 with unity because gnome did not work for me and installed ubuntu Feb 2017 newest displaylink-driver-1.3.52.
Screen was recognized in display settings though blank however mouse would navigate over but could not be seen.
Used troubleshooting on this page xrandr to set DVI screen refresh parameters not sure if this was really necessary but did it any way >>>
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink
but still had issues till>>>
Adding /etc/X11/xorg,conf.d/20-intel.conf and rebooted.
So many thanks is due to you.
My laptop is M11X Alienware i3