When starting Minecraft on Linux with an external monitor connected and the internal screen disabled (e.g. a docked notebook), the game crashes before showing anything using OpenGL. The login screen works fine.

The stack trace is:
me@mymachine ~/Downloads % java -jar minecraft.jar
xxx achievements
xxx recipes
Setting user: xxx, -4994602101999570082
Exception in thread "Minecraft main thread" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerErro
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at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:205)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$Screen.<init>(XRandR.java:234)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$Screen.<init>(XRandR.java:196)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.populate(XRandR.java:87)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.access$100(XRandR.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR$1.run(XRandR.java:110)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.XRandR.getConfiguration(XRandR.java:108)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.init(LinuxDisplay.java:618)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:135)
... 3 more
java -jar minecraft.jar 11,77s user 0,41s system 123% cpu 9,902 total

I'm pretty sure that the problem is the version of lwjgl shipped with Minecraft, as it doesn't happen when manually copying an updated jar and native binary to the .minecraft directory with the exact same setup.

So I guess updating lwjgl (at least for Linux) should be enough to fix this.