Public bug reported: Adjusting display settings for multiple monitors in gnome-shell in Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 is really annoying due to its user-unfriendly operation:
1. When you select a resolution, you have to go and look for the small close button in the resolution selection window's titlebar and manually close the resolution selection window. It should close the window automatically when you select the resolution. 2. When you change the scaling (eg from 200% to 100%), it always resets the monitor layout to left-right. So if you have already changed it to above/below and then you change the scaling from 200% to 100% for the primary monitor, the layout resets to left-right and you have to change it back again. 3. The default in X11 when it forgets the monitor settings is to set native resolutions on both monitors. In X11, if the laptop monitor is 4K and the external monitor say 1920x1080, in X11 it inexplicably sets both to scale to 200%, so the text etc on the external monitor is gigantic. (IIRC, it doesn't have this problem in Wayland - it will set the 4K to 200% and the external to 100%.) 4. In case 3, when I change the 4K display to 1920x1020 and then change the scaling from 200% to 100%, the 'Apply' button disappears so it's impossible to select the new configuration. (It seems that it considers these different configurations to be equivalent, perhaps because they have both been divided by two?) This is made worse by the fact that normally g-c-c remembers settings for different monitors (ie resolutions and display layouts for different monitors), but it completely forgets when either: a) You switch between Wayland and X11; b) At apparent random intervals, particularly if you change monitors (eg from a 1920x1080 one to a 1680x1050 one). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Mar 8 11:05:49 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-16 (203 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-11-17 (110 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754225 Title: The display settings in gnome-control-center are annoying to use for multiple monitors Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Adjusting display settings for multiple monitors in gnome-shell in Ubuntu 17.10/18.04 is really annoying due to its user-unfriendly operation: 1. When you select a resolution, you have to go and look for the small close button in the resolution selection window's titlebar and manually close the resolution selection window. It should close the window automatically when you select the resolution. 2. When you change the scaling (eg from 200% to 100%), it always resets the monitor layout to left-right. So if you have already changed it to above/below and then you change the scaling from 200% to 100% for the primary monitor, the layout resets to left-right and you have to change it back again. 3. The default in X11 when it forgets the monitor settings is to set native resolutions on both monitors. In X11, if the laptop monitor is 4K and the external monitor say 1920x1080, in X11 it inexplicably sets both to scale to 200%, so the text etc on the external monitor is gigantic. (IIRC, it doesn't have this problem in Wayland - it will set the 4K to 200% and the external to 100%.) 4. In case 3, when I change the 4K display to 1920x1020 and then change the scaling from 200% to 100%, the 'Apply' button disappears so it's impossible to select the new configuration. (It seems that it considers these different configurations to be equivalent, perhaps because they have both been divided by two?) This is made worse by the fact that normally g-c-c remembers settings for different monitors (ie resolutions and display layouts for different monitors), but it completely forgets when either: a) You switch between Wayland and X11; b) At apparent random intervals, particularly if you change monitors (eg from a 1920x1080 one to a 1680x1050 one). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Mar 8 11:05:49 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-16 (203 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-11-17 (110 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1754225/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp