unity-2d-panel & nautilus do not resize on resolution change

Bug #992791 reported by Bradley M. Froehle
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Nautilus
New
Undecided
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unity-2d
Invalid
Undecided
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unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

I'm connecting to a remote Ubuntu 12.04 installation running RealVNC + Unity-2D. I have the vnc server set up to allow several resolutions which I toggle between using 'xrandr -s <number>'.

When I increase the horizontal resolution, the top panel no longer resizes to the full width of the screen. This is a regression from the behavior in Ubuntu 11.10.

In addition the desktop nautilus does not respond to the resolution change, preventing selecting regions or moving icons outside of the original resolution.

Other window managers, like xfce 4.10 + thunar, successfully handle these resolution changes. This leads me to suspect that the issue might be in an underlying common library.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

$ apt-cache policy unity-2d-panel
unity-2d-panel:
  Installed: 5.12.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 5.12.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 5.12.0-0ubuntu1 0
        400 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.10.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

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Bradley M. Froehle (brad-froehle) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
description: updated
summary: - panel does not resize on resolution change
+ unity-2d-panel & nautilus do not resize on resolution change
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Bradley M. Froehle (brad-froehle) wrote :

As mentioned in the bug description, this does NOT effect xfce (4.10) + Thunar --- they handle the resolution change correctly.

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Stephane Mutz (stephane-mutz-7) wrote :

I'm using X2go and the top panel doesn't resize either. I don't see the problem with Nautilus though (the window is resized if I shrink the X2go session window).

Changed in unity-2d:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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