Ubuntu
gnome-desktop package

Using gnome-display-properties causes X DPI setting to change

Bug #246718 reported by Vincent Lönngren
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-desktop
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

After gnome-display-properties has been invoked by a user and ~/.gnome2/monitors.xml created, X dpi will always be set to 96 when the user logs in to gnome. This is especially annoying since it's not obvious necessarily obvious to the user why it happens, and some people like me will tend to spend considerable time looking throught X and GDM configuration before finding the cause of the problem. Removing ~/.gnome2/monitors.xml works, but I suppose that is not an ideal solution for everyone.

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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=545112

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

upstream closed the bug with that commit

"commit e9dee9d73b92e7c0d7c81104d8284a9915f96292
Author: Bastien Nocera <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jun 20 16:52:35 2012 +0100

    gnome-rr: Document the default DPI setting

    As X.org lies to us because the monitors lie to it.

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545112"

That doesn't really address the original complain but upstream doesn't seem to be wanting to let the dpi alone, so setting as wontfix

Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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