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Yep, I am an idiot.
I just bought a $9 copy of an old Windows game ("Crimson Skies") and tried to
run it under Wine. Installed OK, but when I tried to run it I ended up with my
screen hung in about 640x480 and 24 point font.
I killed the Wine session and used preferences, screen resolution to reset
things. I tried 1024x768 but only got about 2/3 of a screen. I was intrigued
by the "Off" option so tried it.....
Black.
I waited see if it would revert after 20 seconds. It didn't.
CTRL-ALT-BackSpace and the login window worked fine, and then the screen died,
as it probably should.
I started a terminal session and searched through all the "."directories and
couldn't find anything obvious.
I started again and chose a "Gnome FailSafe" option and succeeded in getting my
GUI back.
Could you please consider some sort of "are you sure" option to the "Off"
setting. There may be somebody else out there just as foolish as I.
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Setting screen resolution to OFF is not idiot-proof
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200964
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