nobody seemed interested enough to send it to GNOME so closing
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
** Changed in: gnome-control-center
Status: New = Invalid
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** Also affects: gnome-control-center
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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cannot change video resolution with gnome-display-properties when g-s-d is not
running
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445096
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To send to GNOME by somebody who want this change, the issue is too much
of a corner case to be worked by the team there, there is already a lot
of bugs happening in the default installation to work before starting on
bugs about people trying to make GNOME components work when not running
GNOME
I expect this bug will be marked as wont fix, but I would like one of
the Gnome developers to weigh in on that.
Options to fix gnome-display-properties include:
1. g-d-p automatically starts up g-s-d if it is not running
2. g-d-p reports an error, and refuses to run if g-s-d is not running (it
not really a bug since it's gnome-settings-daemon which is in charge of
applying the gnome-control-center change, it's also true for other
settings
** Summary changed:
- cannot change video resolution with gnome-display-properties
+ cannot change video resolution with gnome-display-properties
update: gnome-display-properties works when in a Gnome session, but not
in an Xfce session. This probably goes without saying to the developers
of the respective projects. However, since the menu item is named
simply Display, it is not immediately obvious why the display settings
applet does not
