gnome-display-properties: clicking on a rotated monitor makes it forget half of the rotation options

Bug #355905 reported by Marius Gedminas
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

1. Click on a monitor.
2. Enable it.
3. Rotate it left 90 degrees.
4. Click on the monitor again.

What should happen: nothing.

What happens: the monitor rotates back to the normal position, and the rotation dropdown loses the left/right options (keeping only the normal/upside-down).

This is not 100% reproducible: sometimes the rotation dropdown keeps all options, sometimes it has no options and becomes disabled. The contents of the rotations appear to be related to the position of the screen in the virtual desktop space, but maybe I'm mistaken about that.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-server i686

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578111

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.27.3-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:2.27.3-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #393815):
    - About me:
      + Initialize GThread subsystem (Vivian Zhang) (#583451).
    - Appearance:
      + After removing an image set the cursor to the newly selected
        wallpaper so that keyboard navigation works as expected
        (Jens Granseuer) (#575075, LP: #334307).
      + Search GTK+ icon theme search path for icon themes
        (Jens Granseuer) (#575906).
      + Only delete the theme if the user pressed OK (Benjamin Berg)
        (#578694).
      + Close gtkrc files after use (Jens Granseuer) (#578835).
      + Fix theme engine detection on non-UNIX platform
        (Jens Granseuer) (#581156).
      + Don't unref NULL GConf entries (Jens Granseuer).
      + After removing an image set the cursor to the newly selected
        wallpaper (Jens Granseuer) (#575075).
    - Default applications:
      + Add Arora to list of browsers (Bastien Nocera).
    - Display:
      + Pass a transient parent ID to the ApplyConfiguration callback
        so that it can make its confirmation dialog a child of the parent
        (Federico Mena Quintero) (#576006).
      + Simplify calls to dbus-glib which cannot fail (Federico Mena Quintero)
      + Ensure that there will be a backup file before committing
        (Federico Mena Quintero) (#486093).
      + Make the monitor heading be explicitly black (Federico Mena Quintero)
        (#556050).
      + Fix the layout-outputs-horizontally helper (Federico Mena Quintero).
      + Use the timestamp of the Apply button to change the RANDR
        configuration (Federico Mena Quintero).
      + Don't pop up a redundant error dialog (Federico Mena Quintero)
    - Font viewer:
      + Safely printf strings (Christian Persch)
      + Interrupt thumbnailing at 30 s instead of 30 msecs (Jens Granseuer)
        (#584107, LP: #381252).
    - Keybindings:
      + Make activating a section header row expand or collapse the
        section as expected instead of crashing (Jens Granseuer) (#577474).
      + Make the custom keybinding UI smoother (Matthias Clasen).
      + Don't needlessly write entries back to gconf on startup
        (Matthias Clasen) (#581986).
    - Keyboard:
      + Dependency on libxklavier 4.0, optional load/display of extra layouts
        (Sergey V. Udaltsov).
    - Shell:
      + Fix libslab svn:external problem (Rodrigo Moya).
  * Dropped debian/patches/98_correct_shell_use.patch - the change is in
    the new version.
  * debian/control{.in}:
    - libxklavier migration - changed libxklavier12-dev to libxklavier-dev.
    - Bump up build-dep on libgnomekbd-dev.
  * 98_polkit1.patch:
    - Patch from Fedora for polkit-1 migration.
  * debian/rules:
    - Build with --disable-hal. This seems to be a redundant built-time
      check anyway. I can't find any features that are disabled
      without HAL support.
  * Refreshed patches:
    - 04_path_xtra.patch.
    - 05_ta_po.patch.
    - 100_at_properties_readd_gksudo_disable_grab_toggle.patch.
    - 109_screen_resolution_extra.patch.
    - 110_scree...

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Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Mike (bild85) wrote :

I might be experiencing the same thing on Karmic Koala Beta. I didn't look for the left and right options at first, so I cannot tell if they were there and disappeared. All I know is that it is gone now, leaving just the options 'Normal' and 'Upside Down' for Rotation.
The first thing I did was install the ATI/AMD FGLRX driver. It was then that I noticed the options for 90 deg Left or Right were missing. Tried uninstalling the driver but same symptoms. I'm trying to use xrandr -o to rotate one monitor but need to figure out what it calls the display. Will research that myself.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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