Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
Variants of this problem have come up before, notably in bug 224229 a
few years ago. After playing a game on my 1920×1200 display, due to the
usual failure to change back to normal resolution, I got stuck in (if I
recall correctly) 640×480 resolution.
Four things made it hard to return to my previous resolution:
1. I couldn't reach the menu, apparently because it was rendered in the
same place as some icons on my menu bar. It was the menu titles that
were displayed, but the icons that grabbed my mouse clicks. Luckily one
of my attempts accidentally opened a terminal, so I could start the
preferences that way. Not something we can count on happening to the
average user!
2. When I did manage to start the display prefs, its window appeared
entirely outside the visible screen. So I tried right-clicking its
entry in my window list and picking Move from its menu.
3. The menu for the window-list entry did not show up normally. Instead
I got a blank menu with scroller widgets at the top and bottom.
Something I might have anticipated if the menu would not have fit the
screen, but it did.
4. After picking my usual resolution, I tried to click OK. But this
again fell outside the visible screen, and because of the size of the
preferences window, was hard to bring inside the visible area. I made a
guess at the number of times I needed to hit <tab>; moving the window
with <alt> pressed would also have worked. But not something the
average user would know.
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Hard to recover from bad resolution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531312
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