[GS 42] display switching key does not work

[Francois Thirioux]

Hi,

Using GS 42 in Jammy, when I press the display switch key of my laptop keyboard, I get the usual pop-up but the selected item is not applied.
I have to use gnome-control-center to configure my displays. (gcc is slow to start these days?)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Note to everyone else: A lot of machines don't have a display switching key. It is sometimes Fn+F8 or Fn+F7.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you include the journal log after getting the issue? Is that under wayland or xorg session?

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

I use Wayland, GNOME session.
The key, after having selected any of the combination icons (external, internal, clone, join), returns my first display to be cloned on my monitor. No other possibility.

I get absolutely nothing in logs.

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

I've just tested: same issue in xorg, fyi.

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Solved upstream:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5217

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 42.0-1ubuntu1

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gnome-shell (42.0-1ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Merge with Debian.
  * Add patches to revert switch to new gnome-bluetooth
  * Revert "debian/control.in: Switch to gnome-bluetooth3"

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Refresh
  * debian/patches: Fix monitor switching configuration (LP: #1964496)
  * debian/patches: Overview, remove desktop fade logic (LP: #1965072)
  * debian/patches: Cherry-pick various upstream fixes targeting 42.1
  * js: Support legacy GNOME Control Center (now Settings) dbus name
  * shellDBus: Actually make ScreenTransitionAsync async

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Remaining changes with debian:
    - Replace gnome-backgrounds dep with ubuntu-wallpapers and Suggests
      gnome-themes-standard-data, gnome-backgrounds
    - Add some Recommends:
      + ubuntu-session (| gnome-session) to have the ubuntu session available
      + xserver-xorg-legacy
      + yaru-theme-gnome-shell for the default ubuntu theming
      + gnome-remote-desktop to provide remote desktop support by default
    - Moved some Recommends to Suggests:
      + chrome-gnome-shell
    - Update debian/gbp.conf with Ubuntu settings
    - gnome-shell-common.prerm: Remove deprecated ubuntu theme alternative
    - ubuntu/desktop_detect.patch:
      + add caching for desktop detection to avoid querying the current
        desktop env variable as iterate through the list each time. For the
        time of the Shell process, we can expect this env variable to stay
        stable.
    - ubuntu/smarter_alt_tab.patch:
      + quick alt-tab (without showing up the switcher) switch only between
        the last window of the last 2 applications to be focused instead of
        raising all windows of those apps.
    - ubuntu/lightdm-user-switching.patch:
      + Allow user switching when using LightDM.
    - ubuntu/lock_on_suspend.patch
      + Respect Ubuntu's lock-on-suspend setting.
    - ubuntu/background_login.patch
      + Change default background color as we modified the default GDM color
        for our ubuntu session.
    - ubuntu/gdm_alternatives.patch
      + Add support for GDM3 theme alternatives
    - optional-hot-corner.patch
      + enable patch proposed by upstream developer already in package (but
        not in series) to add a settings for optional hot corner activation.
    - main-show-an-error-message-on-gnome-shell-crash.patch,
      global-make-possible-to-set-debug-flags-dynamically.patch,
      main-increase-the-granularity-of-backtraces-in-SHELL_DEBU.patch,
      main-add-backtrace-crashes-all-and-backtrace-all.patch,
      sessionMode-add-support-for-debugFlags-parameter.patch:
      + Improve debug JS tracing for crash reports
    - ubuntu/search-call-XUbuntuCancel-method-on-providers-when-no-dat.patch:
      + stop searches when requested from UI
    - magnifier-Show-cursor-when-magnifier-is-enabled-and-scale.patch:
      + Show monitor scaled cursor when magnifier is enabled
    - ubuntu/layout-Make-starting-in-the-overview-optional.patch:
      + Makes dock replace overview easier
    - ubuntu/layout-Try-to-allocate-before...