** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
Run gnome-display-properties. Pick a different resolution. Click
apply.
What I expected: I expected a confirmation dialog with a countdown to
appear, saying that I should click OK if my monitor was displaying the
resolution. (More accurately, since the resolution I picked was out of
range, I expected that my monitor would snap back to the old resolution
eventually.)
What happened: My monitor proceeded to display the Invalid Resolution
message for quite some time. I did a CTRL-ALT-Backspace, and tried to
log back in, to discover that the invalid resolution was now part of my
user profile, making my account nigh-unusable.
Compounding this problem was the fact that failsafe mode doesn't reset
resolution changes; I ended up creating another user account from the
- xterm-only account (since CTRL-ALT-n doesn't switch to a plain tty any
- more), logging in there, and trying to find any reference to ways to
- change the mysterious setting which wasn't in .gnome or .gconf and
- wasn't affected by logging in as failsafe, but *was* affected by logging
- in as terminal only.
+ xterm-only login, logging in there, and trying to find any reference to
+ ways to change the mysterious setting which wasn't in .gnome or .gconf
+ and wasn't affected by logging in as failsafe, but *was* affected by
+ logging in as terminal only.
(For some reason, I found a forum post rather than
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution, but eventually I deleted
.config/monitors.xml. In any case, this is hardly bulletproof, and I'll
file a bug on whatever makes failsafe configurations as soon as I find
out what component it is. Aren't we supposed to have bullet-proof X?)
I don't think this is a dupe of bug 197673, since that was about randr
changes, while this is just about screen-resolution changes. If it *is*
a dupe, please just reopen that one.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.24.0.1-0ubuntu7.1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
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gnome-display-properties applies resolution changes without a timeout box
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304955
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