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  1. Bug #445871
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Comment 2 for bug 445871

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Johan van Zoomeren (amain) wrote : Re: gnome-display-properties sets a to low virtual screen size

In pursuit of an Compiz/Mesa problem( I installed a patched version of mesa from PPA ( https://edge.launchpad.net/~cavedon/+archive/ppa ) and now use emerald instead of metacity as window decorator and I can't reproduce this bug anymore. I see though now different behaviour, maybe related. It seems that depending on the Virtual setting in the "Display" subsection of xorg.conf, gnome-display-settings is acting differently.

1. Virtual 3120 1050: gnome-display-settings report a max resolution of 1280x1024@85 on my second LCD display (actually a beamer). And is perfectly able to extend my desktop without problems and with compiz working.

2. Changing to Virtual 3040 1200, reboot: gnome-display-settings report a max resolution of 1600x1200@60 on my second LCD display. And is again perfectly able to extend my desktop to this higher resolution without problems and with compiz working.

I would expect gnome-display-settings always to report the maximum available resolution.