Desktop background wrongly sized after reconfiguring screen size for external monitor

[Tom Haddon]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

My regular laptop screen resolution is 1280x800. I have an external monitor with a native resolution of 1680x1050. When I switch to using just the external monitor (through Fn+F8) the desktop background appears to be wrongly sized, as it thinks the resolution is actually much larger - the aspect ratio of the background thumbnails and the virtual desktop thumbnails confirms this (see screenshot). And actually, taking a screenshot of the whole desktop confirm this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 08:47:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, do you use nautilus to draw your background there?

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I'm afraid I don't really understand the question. How would I know if I use nautilus to draw my background, and where do you mean?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reassigning to nautilus following IRC discussion

[Yazen Ghannam (yghannam-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Tom,

Are you still experiencing this issue? Thank you.

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

Yes, I'm still experiencing this issue.

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I've just upgraded to lucid and am still seeing this issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

Reported as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609923 - can't seem to work out how to link to that bug report though.