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gnome-desktop package

gnome-display-properties mistakenly requires logout to increase resolution

Bug #365210 reported by Scott Bronson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-desktop
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Jaunty
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Open gnome-display-properties and reduce your resolution.

Now try to increase it back to the starting resolution. gnome-display-properties will curtly tell you, "Please log out and log back in again". No explanation of why.

Now quit gnome-display-properties, start it again, and choose your starting resolution. It works! The "log out and log back in again" is just a ruse.

This happens on both my GMA4500 laptop and my Radeon 3650 (open source driver) desktop. It's a regression in Jaunty -- Intrepid works properly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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Scott Bronson (bronson) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, confirming it wants to enable virtual settings in those cases for no reason

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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motty (mottyporat) wrote :

I agree.
If I mistakenly choose a resolution larger than my virtual maximum, it rightfully asks to log out (but without an explanation). Then I cancel the erroneous choice (I don't log out) and choose a setting that fits in the virtual maximum, but the same message keeps showing.
Closing & rerunning gnome-display-settings solves it. (Which makes this bug the least one, among many more bugs in gnome-display-settings since Jaunty upgrade).

Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

I have provided upstream with a fix. See the patch in the upstream bug report.

affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
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Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Unknown → New
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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

Let's pick up upstream's solution (which does the same thing as my patch but in a different way) in commit 3f811a611185a3bdbb6b6d4c19590bd26ae1dc82

Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in gnome-desktop:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu Jaunty):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu):
assignee: Alberto Milone (albertomilone) → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
tags: added: regression-release
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted gnome-desktop into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Proposed package indeed fix the bug there's no dialog saying that you need to logout in order to increase the resolution again, bug is fixed, thanks all.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop - 1:2.26.1-0ubuntu2

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gnome-desktop (1:2.26.1-0ubuntu2) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_git_change_reprobe_when_required.patch:
    - git change to refresh correctly the screen settings
      (lp: #365210)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:42:53 +0200

Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu Jaunty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

copied to karmic as well

Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-desktop:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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