[intrepid] theme lost when changed resolution

[Jonas Alves]

1. i installed intrepid alpha 3 on vmware workstation 6.0.4
2. i did a couple of tricks to avoid vmware problems - http://www.ubuntukungfu.org/blog/2008/07/installing-ubuntu-intrepid-alpha-3-in-vmware/

3. i logged in

4. i ran 'screen resolution' graphical utility
5. the resolution was 800x600, then i changed it to 1024x768
6. i changed it back to 800x600

7. everything got ugly - see attached screenshot

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[yeeking (lists-yeeking)]

I am having the same problem on my Lenovo T400 / ATI binary driver

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu.

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.

gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installed: 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3
  Candidate: 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3 0
        500 http://ftp.ticklers.org intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ftp.ticklers.org intrepid/main Packages

3) What you expected to happen

When I change the screen resolution using the gnome screen resolution app, I expect the gnome-settings-daemon to keep running

4) What happened instead

gnome-settings-daemon crashes and the gnome theme is set to a default. Running gnome-settings-daemon again fixes the problem. Here is the error from gnome-settings-daemon:

gnome-settings-daemon --no-daemon
desired is = /home/matthew64/.config/monitors.xml.desired
reading configuration...
done
error MATCHESShutdown failed or nothing to shut down.
xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192

** (gnome-screensaver:22709): WARNING **: screensaver already running in this session

--------- when i change screen resolution:

[1234549865,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the applicationdesired is = /home/matthew64/.config/monitors.xml.desired
reading configuration...
done
error MATCHESThe program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 2468 error_code 8 request_code 157 minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

always happens when I am giving a lecture and I've just plugged into the projector, since that is when I change resolution. This is a bad advert for Ubuntu! Let's get this one fixed...

best

Matthew

[yeeking (lists-yeeking)]

I have done some more testing. The T400 has an integrated Intel graphics chip and an ATI card. When using the ATI card, the problem occurs. When using the Intel card, it does not. If I use the ATI Catalyst Control Centre app to change the settings, the problem does not occur.

So my current work around is to use the ATI Catalyst Control Centre app.