** 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
-- gnome-display-properties applies resolution changes without a timeout box https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304955 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
