GDM login screen too wide

[Matt Sachtler]

Binary package hint: gdm

Running Hardy, I performed an update this morning, and now the GDM login screen seems to think that it's a lot bigger than it should be. The background appears stretched out, and the login stuff that should be (and used to be, until the last set of updates) centered is now showing up on the far right side of the screen, mostly cut off. The word "ubuntu" in the logo gets chopped off after about the "b".

As soon as I log in, everything is sized correctly.

I'm also seeing issues involving the screen when I suspend, etc, but I suspect they're not related to this.

I suspect that it's something involving detecting how big the screen is. If my monitor was, maybe, twice as big as it actually is (1280x800) in both directions, it would probably fit correctly. I could imagine this being some kind of xorg configuration issue, except that everything's perfect as soon as I log in.

gdm version: 2.20.5-0ubuntu2
machine: dell inspiron 6000, hardy beta, last set of updates were pulled in on april 9th. Radeon x300 card, using the fglrx drivers.

As always, let me know if there are any relevant files/output that might help, and I'll post them.

[razor1394 (razor1394)]

I think I have the same problem.

The attached image I took shows that the bottom buttons are outside the screen area.

I'm on latest Hardy beta and the system was updated less than an hour ago. I have an MSI nVidia 7900GTO 512MB. Another computer with the same motherboard and an Asus nVidia 6200TC 256MB has no problems with this and it was updated yesterday.

[laborg (gerhardtt)]

Troubled by this one too. Running the latest hardy beta with a Nvidia 6200. The visible section is so small that I cannot see the input box (so I have to type blind). After login, the Screen resolution is OK.

[Matt Sachtler (supersack56)]

Attaching a picture of my screen - its a bit more pronounced than razor1394's.

[Kaarel (kaarelk1989-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm this bug. How can I give more information about my system/packages?

[Anuban (anubanaries)]

I am facing the same problem too. I am using it on Dell Inspiron 1505 laptop. I also have a nVidia 256MB video card.
After login everything works OK but login is as explained in the bug.
I went to Setting - Prefernces - Login Window and selected Gnome as the theme instead of xorg.
I think that solved the issue. But after every update it seems to go back to xorg...

[gabriel (gabriel-castro)]

Same problem here. I have a nVidia 7300. It was working well and got bad just after an update this week.

[Graham Davies (graham-grahamdavies)]

Also have the same problem following recent update. Nvidia FX5500 128MB video card. About 70% of login screen visible.

[mano cazalet (valeptech)]

+1

 i have the Quadro 110 NVS card, which is basically the same as 7300

[Matt Sachtler (supersack56)]

Another thought about the problem -

Previous to the screen being sized completely wrong (in earlier versions of Hardy), my cursor would seem to jump off to the side of the screen before becoming centered again - this happened right as gdm started up, and displayed the brownish screen, before loading the login widgets. Looking at it now, the cursor jumps to the same place, but that place is now exactly centered on the "bigger" gdm screen.

I wonder if this size issue was there all along, but was being corrected for somehow? and now that correction is broken, so it never figures out the correct size?

[Mindless Automaton (lordkenneth)]

I'm getting the same thing.

Nvidia 6600GT here.

This appears to be a resolution problem, I think...

[Xovan (deyoneandahalf)]

Same here I even tried adjusting my monitor and changing the login screen but I still get the time and stuff on the bottom right cut off. But as soon as I log in everything is back to normal.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Guys, there's not much point posting to say "me too" unless you actually set the bug status to "Confirmed". Doing it now, as I also have this one.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Browsing through recent GDM uploads, I saw this changelog entry that might possibly be related:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-April/010658.html

2.20.5-0ubuntu1
   * New upstream version
     - Use GDK functions to get proper screen resolution.

[ferrarius (smitpascal)]

A little question, aren't this bug and (216871 gdm uses incorrect resolution) that bug the same?

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Bug 216871 seems to be a different bug to me.

[razor1394 (razor1394)]

I don't have this problem anymore after running latest updates and also:

#*sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
#sudo nvidia-xconfig
*
2008/4/16, Matthew East <email address hidden>:
>
> Bug 216871 seems to be a different bug to me.
>
>
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> GDM login screen too wide
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214704
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> of the bug.
>

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RaZoR1394 - Alexander Bracquemont

[Nicklas Svanteson (nicklas-teknister)]

I still have this problem with all updates applied as of today.

It's a Intel 845G.

[Olexandr Zanichkovsky (ozanichkovsky)]

I confirm that razor1394's workaround worked for me.

[Roman Voznyuk (roman-voznyuk)]

I have two boxes running Ubuntu. I have update from 7.10 to 8.04.
This issue appears on box with nVidia card. Another one has ATI card and login screen is just fine.

[mpospisil (marcuspospisil)]

I have this problem too after upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04. I'm using an Nvidia 7300 LE.
Login screen seems to run at a different resolution and is off centered and really annoying.
After logging in the resolution is back to default and working. How can I fix this annoying
problem?

[Raúl Santos (borfast)]

I also have this problem on my desktop computer, which has an Nvidia 6200 LE TurboCache.

I have tried razor1394's suggestion but it didn't solve the problem.

Additionally, running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" seems to completely clear all device information from xorg.conf. Pretty much the same as reported on Bug #182743, from which I am also suffering on my laptop.

Something seems to be very messed up with Hardy Heron's hardware detection. :(

[Tabrays (tabrays)]

Same problem here. I have a Nvidia 6600.

[mpospisil (marcuspospisil)]

I ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and reset my xorg.conf and this fixed my problem.

[Paul Hambleton (phambleton-deactivatedaccount)]

This worked for me.
Thanks Marcus.

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 22:44 +0000, mpospisil wrote:
> I ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and reset my xorg.conf
> and this fixed my problem.
>
--
Paul Hambleton
<email address hidden>

[Sarke (sarke2000)]

I have the same problem since installing Hardy, and I found the offending line in xorg.conf.

My display is 1680x1050, but under the "Screen" section and subsection "Display" I found a the line:
# Virtual 1920 1200

After commenting out that line, everything was fine.

[Scott Hoge (scotthoge)]

I too was having the same problem. Hardy on a Dell Inspiron XPS M170 with an nvidia 6800 ultra. Razer1394's reconfigure fixed it for me. I'm also running 1920x1200.
Thanks!

[martinnorris (martin-norris)]

I also had this problem, and resolving it was easy {in the end}
The x server uses the first screen resolution in the xorg.conf file for login
So make the first entry the one you want.

The biggest problem with hardy is that the flexible x configuration tools have been dumbed down; e.g. displayconfig-gtk
Therefore I had to manually edit xorg.conf to add

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "Generic Video Card"
 Monitor "Generic Monitor"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "1280x1024" "(pitch" "1024)"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

[Matt Sachtler (supersack56)]

Fixing my xorg.conf like martinnorris suggested fixed my issue.

[Raúl Santos (borfast)]

 I already had the resolution I want as the first entry and I'm still experiencing the problem :(

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue should be fixed in karmic where the login screen is a normal session