{"id":232,"date":"2023-01-18T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:51:04","slug":"parsec-privacy-mode-has-encountered-a-display-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/2023\/01\/18\/parsec-privacy-mode-has-encountered-a-display-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsec Privacy mode has encountered a display error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError-1024x230.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError-1024x230.png 1024w, https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError-768x172.png 768w, https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError-500x112.png 500w, https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ParsecError.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Privacy mode has encountered a display error and is inactive. Try reconnecting, otherwise contact us if this message persists.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, you! Or few-weeks-ago-me! Are you using Parsec and are plagued with the red privacy mode icon? Does privacy mode look like it&#8217;s not even enabled?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That means your Parsec configuration file has some leftover configuration, possibly from a different login or SAML login. Open your host configuration file from the settings and add # before any lines you see about virtual displays and privacy mode (this disables those lines), save the file, restart Parsec on the host and&#8230; you should be safe from this red-eyed peril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog post brought to you by: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>my being ever so mildly annoyed looking at that eye for weeks before deciding to actually investigate and fix it because nothing was coming up when I googled for it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the letter M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Privacy mode has encountered a display error and is inactive. Try reconnecting, otherwise contact us if this message persists.&#8221; Hey, you! Or few-weeks-ago-me! Are you using Parsec and are plagued with the red privacy mode icon? Does privacy mode look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/2023\/01\/18\/parsec-privacy-mode-has-encountered-a-display-error\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notesforfutureme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liam.flookes.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}