screen resolution reset at maximum resolution at login

[Dzamir]

The gdm of course uses the maximum resolution (1920x1440) available at login. But after the login in gnome, the screen resolution doesn't change and I need to change the resolution in 1280x960 after each login. I checked in gconf-editor if gnome saves the resolution in /desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution, and it's correctly set to my resolution. This bug happen with all users on my pc.
I'm usigin ubuntu hardy development version.

[Ari Torhamo (ari-torhamo)]

This just started to happen to me too with the updates of 8th or 9th of february. The current wrong resolution after booting is 1900 x 1200 for both the login screen and the desktop. My monitor is a 21" CRT, for which 4:3 is the right aspect ratio. I normally use a resolution of 1400 x 1050 or 1600 x 1200, depending on what I do. The driver I use is NV.

BTW, the resolution of the login screen also used to be correct in my system. At least when I used the Nvidia driver for a while ago, the resolution was the same for the login screen and the desktop. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the bug in question, but thought to mention it to you Dzamir.

[Don Rist (drist)]

If any confirmation of this bug is needed, I'm having the same problem. Resolution resets to maximum with each login. Selecting and saving a lower resolution with the box checked to make it the default has no effect. My maximum is 1280 X 1024. Selecting 1024 X 768 works for the current session but is back to 1280 x 1024 next time I login.

[Don Rist (drist)]

Using Configuration Editor and looking at desktop/gnome/screen/0/default and selecting resolution or rate, there is a warning that reads "This key has no schema."

[Dzamir (dzamirro)]

Don Rist, I have the same problem with the key!

[peter neologe (peter-neologe)]

Same issue here, the resolution seems to "follow" the resolution of GDM, which is the max. Changing it in the Screens control panel or via editing xorg.conf by hand does NOT work.

[Christophe Olinger (olingerc)]

I can confrim this too.
Actually yesterday I realized, that in the new display configuration menu, at login the resolution is correctly set to 1280x1024, but the desktop is too big, as I have to move to the edges, and the desktop "follows". When I change to 1024x768, the resolution changes and on switching back to 1280x1024, the scree resolution is ok with the desktop correctly filling my screen. Unfortuantely on restart, the setting is not stored although 1280x1024 is still selected in the drop down list. So, I have to do the same switching as explained above at every login.
I think this should be at least a high or even critical importance.

[Dado Sutter (dado-pobox)]

I would like to confirm that I have the same problem, using a nVidia FX5900 on a Sony Multiscan 300sf CRT, trying to keep 1280x1024 on Ubuntu 8.04 now.
The problem appeared before, on 7.10 too.
Thanks !

[Christophe Olinger (olingerc)]

Since today, everything works as it should. I did not change anything so it must have been one of the updates. I started my computer and after login the screen resolution was correct.

For me, the bug can be closed.

[Dzamir (dzamirro)]

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2008/5/6 Christophe Olinger <email address hidden>:

> Since today, everything works as it should. I did not change anything so
> it must have been one of the updates. I started my computer and after
> login the screen resolution was correct.
>
> For me, the bug can be closed.
>
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> screen resolution reset at maximum resolution at login
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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for reporting this bug and for your efforts to make
Ubuntu better. As Xorg has improved this past year, an unfortunate side
effect of these improvements is that it has rendered several design
assumptions in displayconfig-gtk obsolete. So, starting with Hardy we
are no longer putting displayconfig-gtk forth as a primary configuration
tool, and are putting our development focus into the Screen Resolution
applet. As a result, we do not plan to fix this bug and thus are closing
it.

For more background on this change, please see this page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/DisplayConfigGtk