Unfortunately, in Ubuntu 8.10 this is still WAAAAY broken. (Ref: bug 316961)
Doing the same thing - trying out resolutions on a ViewSonic A75F
monitor, not only did I totally hoze my session - I hozed it in classic
style.
It took me several hours of hacking around with a recovery terminal
before I - by the Grace of God Almighty - finally got my session un-
hozed.
The only way I could see a non-technical user doing this would be to do
a *TOTAL* nuke and re-install. IMHO, a rather drastic workaround, 'eh?
{:-p
I am adding the requested behavior changes to this comment - some are
relatively easy (changes to the default Gnome setup), others are more
complex (the actual revert logic).
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Requested changes:
1. Implement the display time-out feature as noted above.
2. Add an item to the recovery menu that allows the user to reset the
display parameters to a sane value, (say 800x600, 60hz).
3. (Optional) Add, as one of the boot choices, an option that boots
normally except it changes the screen resolution to something sane.
Note that simply passing " -- bestResolution" does not work well, since the
user gets the un-desired resolution first.
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What say ye?
Jim
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gnome-display-properties should revert change automatically if not acknowledged
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197673
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