After Mavericks upgrade, my 2 external monitors using DisplayLink software is very unstable with poor visual display quality & arrangement is not maintained. DisplayLink has reported this to Apple as an issue with the Apple Window server crashing.

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After Mavericks upgrade, my 2 external monitors using DisplayLink software is very unstable with poor visual display quality & arrangement is not maintained. DisplayLink has reported this to Apple as an issue with the Apple Window server crashing.

Has anyone had this issue as well?

DisplayLink claims that that this is a known issue with the Apple Window Server crashing.

DisplayLink also claims that they reported this matter to Apple and that is up to Apple to

resolve the issue.

Is there any word from Apple on this?

Could this be Apples way of pushing everyone from USB to DVI/VGA display adapters to thunderbolt displays?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Using 2 external monitors

Posted on Nov 10, 2013 8:10 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 25, 2013 3:44 AM in response to Yattster

Someone opened a bug report with Apple in another thread - about a different product that used DisplayLink drivers, and Apple blamed the vendor.

I have many issues too. Crashing Window Manager, and once it crashed my Mac.

I also have many issues... one is corrupt display. The icons are missing in the menubar on my laptop, and squished together on my external monitor:

They are there if I mouse over, but invisible.

I can't click on the squished ones, they are to close.

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Answer 2

Nov 26, 2013 6:24 AM in response to coffeecoffee11

Apparently OSX 10.9.1 beta has fixes for "display issues" - on the displaylink forums someone said it helped for them with a single monitor, but not much more info.

I guess we have to wait for the release.

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