Ubuntu
displayconfig-gtk package

wrong options screen resolution

Bug #173640 reported by DFreeze on 2007-12-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I recently lost the default resolution of my laptop. Autodetect didn't give the right resolution (Just PnP monitor with 1024x768) so I selected Generic - LCD monitor 1440x900 (the native resolution of my screen). The only resolution options I got were 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. So even though the name sais 1440x900 I can't get that resolution at all. I had to do a dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg (or something) to get it back.

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Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote on 2007-12-03:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in displayconfig-gtk.

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DFreeze (dfreeze) wrote on 2008-03-09:

Screenshot-Screen and Graphics Preferences.png Edit (50.5 KiB, image/png)

I just discovered the checkbox for widescreen monitors. This made 1440x900 available in the drop-down menu. But setting the secondary screen (LCD TV) to 1360x768, AND checking the widescreen box, the only options available are (screenshot attached):

800x600
1280x720
1280x768

How are these resolutions determined? It feels very arbitrary to me!

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2008-10-03: displayconfig-gtk is deprecated

Thank you for reporting this bug and for your efforts to make
Ubuntu better. As Xorg has improved this past year, an unfortunate side
effect of these improvements is that it has rendered several design
assumptions in displayconfig-gtk obsolete. So, starting with Hardy we
are no longer putting displayconfig-gtk forth as a primary configuration
tool, and are putting our development focus into the Screen Resolution
applet. As a result, we do not plan to fix this bug and thus are closing
it.

For more background on this change, please see this page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/DisplayConfigGtk