Marquee bar disappear after change screen rotation and reboot system

[cathyli]

Marquee bar disappear after change screen rotation and reboot system.

Reproduced steps:
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1. Launch screen resolution applet from Settings.
2. Change screen rotation from "Normal" to "Left", cick "Apply".
3. On prompt dialog, select "Keep resolution".
4. Reboot system by command in terminal "sudo reboot"
5. After system reboot, check desktop and applets.

Current result:
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In step3, time&data plugin disappear, batery life disappear on status bar.
In step5, marquee bar disappeared. Can only view 3 app. Finger scroll only work on horizontal direction.

Expected result:
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In step3, all marquee bar and status bar should work correctly.
In step5, marquee bar, applets and whole desktop should work correctly.

[Horace (horace-li)]

This bug needs to involve Todd on screen resolution settings, in Xephyr, if screen is rotated to left, resolution will expand to a huge size (I cannot figure out what size it really is). After re-start Xephyr in the original normal size, marquee panel will disappear, which makes me suspect it is related with screen resolution setting. With previous version of moblin-applets, I have tried and no such issue happened.

[Horace (horace-li)]

please assign this bug to Todd, I have looked into moblin-applets source code, and it is something wrong with setting new resolution and rotation. modifying that part could fix the bug. fyi!

[Horace (horace-li)]

Re-assign to Todd to help on fixing the bug.

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

Here's a quick fix, ssh to the machine and run this command:

su -l ume -c "gconftool-2 --type "string" --set /desktop/moblin/screen/default/0/rotation normal"

That will overwrite the gconf rotation key and set it back to normal. Then reboot and it should be fine.

The marquee doesn't take well at all to being in left or right orientation, even prior to a reboot. I think the first step is to make the marquee capable of being resized to the former height setting (it starts as 1024, but on rotation should change to 600). It doesn't seem to enjoy being instantiated while the screen is rotated, which is why it's not coming up after reboot.

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

I just tried rebooting after changing the screen to inverted and it worked fine but that doesn't require a resize of the marquee.

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

Yes, it has issue when change rotation to left and right. Invert work well, it need not resize.

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

I've removed the left and right rotations from the screen resolution dialog. It still supports inverted but that one has never had any issues. Fixed in 0.28

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

Verified in applets 0.28, removed left and right rotation settings, the issue doesn't exist, close it.