gnome-display-properties mistakenly requires logout to increase resolution

[Scott Bronson]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Open gnome-display-properties and reduce your resolution.

Now try to increase it back to the starting resolution. gnome-display-properties will curtly tell you, "Please log out and log back in again". No explanation of why.

Now quit gnome-display-properties, start it again, and choose your starting resolution. It works! The "log out and log back in again" is just a ruse.

This happens on both my GMA4500 laptop and my Radeon 3650 (open source driver) desktop. It's a regression in Jaunty -- Intrepid works properly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, confirming it wants to enable virtual settings in those cases for no reason

[motty (mottyporat)]

I agree.
If I mistakenly choose a resolution larger than my virtual maximum, it rightfully asks to log out (but without an explanation). Then I cancel the erroneous choice (I don't log out) and choose a setting that fits in the virtual maximum, but the same message keeps showing.
Closing & rerunning gnome-display-settings solves it. (Which makes this bug the least one, among many more bugs in gnome-display-settings since Jaunty upgrade).

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

I have provided upstream with a fix. See the patch in the upstream bug report.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Let's pick up upstream's solution (which does the same thing as my patch but in a different way) in commit 3f811a611185a3bdbb6b6d4c19590bd26ae1dc82

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted gnome-desktop into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Proposed package indeed fix the bug there's no dialog saying that you need to logout in order to increase the resolution again, bug is fixed, thanks all.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop - 1:2.26.1-0ubuntu2

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gnome-desktop (1:2.26.1-0ubuntu2) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_git_change_reprobe_when_required.patch:
    - git change to refresh correctly the screen settings
      (lp: #365210)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:42:53 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

copied to karmic as well