desktop resolution not restored if an application changes it and then crashes or is killed.

[dronus]

After running some bad resolution changing fullscreen application, the user set
desktop resolution is not restored on quite many occasions.

This is frequent if the display changing application is terminated abnormally
(crashed, killed).

Several bugtrackers are full of "desktop resolution wrong after running xy"
complaints. This cannot be blamed to bad programs any more. The resolution
should be handled just like memory or file handles - if the screen posessing
process gets terminated, the OS / xserver should take care of restoring the
desktop.

I've already filed this one at bugs.freedesktop.org, but it is declared solved there as of Thu Oct 9 22:22:53 2008 +0200.
For me, it isn't.

[dronus (paul-geisler)]

Bug 27920 at bugs.freedesktop.org

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi dronus,

Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER', which will attach several files we need for debugging.

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[dronus (paul-geisler)]

Hi,

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Hi dronus,
>
>
> Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER',

apport-collect says:
"Package xorg-server not installed and no hook available, ignoring
No additional information collected."

That doesn't work because the package is named xserver-xorg
appearently... which is not listed on launchpad it seems... A bug too??

I like to move the bug to a package that actually exists in my system,
but which one, maybe xserver-xorg-core ?

thanks very much

Paul

[dronus (paul-geisler)]

I think no more information is needed as I filed that as a general bug with several occurences in quite different situations. Its more a "we need a general solution" proposal, right?

[dronus (paul-geisler)]

As this still happens in several occasions and needs a general solution independent of a single configuration or single buggy subsystems/applications, I put this to "confirmed" state. If not appropriate, please give a hint how such general request should be handled better.

thanks

Paul