I just tested Ubuntu 22.04 and I can confirm it fixes the issue. First, used 22.04 with the current mutter version available in jammy-updates: user1@U-20CG3JVH1ALS3:~$ sudo apt-cache policy mutter-common libmutter-10-0 gir1.2-mutter-10 [sudo] password for user1: mutter-common: Installed: 42.9-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 42.9-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 42.9-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 42.0-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages libmutter-10-0: Installed: 42.9-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 42.9-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 42.9-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 42.0-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages gir1.2-mutter-10: Installed: 42.9-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 42.9-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 42.9-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 42.0-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages And I do hit the error when trying to revert after changing the scale: Jul 24 17:03:37 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3048]: Failed to use linear monitor configuration: Invalid mode 800x600 (-nan) for monitor 'unknown unknown' Jul 24 17:03:37 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3048]: Failed to use fallback monitor configuration: Invalid mode 800x600 (-nan) for monitor 'unknown unknown' Jul 24 17:03:37 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3048]: Impossible to set scaling on crtc 59 to 1.000000, error id 2 Jul 24 17:03:38 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3048]: Xlib: extension "DPMS" missing on display ":1". Then, I upgraded to package from -proposed: user1@U-20CG3JVH1ALS3:~$ sudo apt-cache policy mutter-common libmutter-10-0 gir1.2-mutter-10 [sudo] password for user1: mutter-common: Installed: 42.9-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 42.9-0ubuntu4 Version table: *** 42.9-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 42.9-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 42.0-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages libmutter-10-0: Installed: 42.9-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 42.9-0ubuntu4 Version table: *** 42.9-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 42.9-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 42.0-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages gir1.2-mutter-10: Installed: 42.9-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 42.9-0ubuntu4 Version table: *** 42.9-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 42.9-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 42.0-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages And now the error is no longer logged and I can successfully revert: Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Impossible to set scaling on crtc 59 to 1.000000, error id 2 Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Impossible to set scaling on crtc 59 to 1.000000, error id 2 Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Window manager warning: Scalig CRTC 59 at 1.000000 failed Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Impossible to set scaling on crtc 61 to 1.000000, error id 2 Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Window manager warning: Scalig CRTC 61 at 1.000000 failed Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Impossible to set scaling on crtc 63 to 1.000000, error id 2 Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Window manager warning: Scalig CRTC 63 at 1.000000 failed Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Impossible to set scaling on crtc 65 to 1.000000, error id 2 Jul 24 17:07:49 U-20CG3JVH1ALS3 gnome-shell[3166]: Window manager warning: Scalig CRTC 65 at 1.000000 failed Scalig CRTC 65 at 1.000000 failed (The errors above can be ignored for now as their are a known problem with Xdcv, which is further explained in comment #16) Marking as verification-done